suspicious - Story 145094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride back felt long and oppressively quiet. His father drove, whistling tunelessly, while his mother sat in the passenger seat, gazing out the window. John couldn't shake the prickling sensation at the back of his neck. They seemed…different, somehow.

When they arrived, the house was eerily silent. A fresh coat of paint covered the exterior, a color he didn't recall. Inside, the furniture had been rearranged, giving the space an unfamiliar feel.

He unpacked his things, and as he was doing so, he found a small, antique music box in the bottom drawer of his wardrobe. It wasn't his. He opened it, and as a tune played, he caught his father watching him from the doorway, a fleeting expression on his face that quickly vanished.

Emotion: suspicious

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.82 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion suspicious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 suspicious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the suspicious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the suspicious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.420
`🤔`	0.415
`🧐`	0.362
`疑`	0.352
`suspicious`	0.352

Suppressed:

`and`	-0.307
`alleviate`	-0.301
`ได้รับการ`	-0.298
`allevi`	-0.285
`mouthful`	-0.284