suspicious - Story 145095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first week was a whirlwind of activity. His mother insisted on cooking all his favorite meals, which, he had to admit, tasted as good as he remembered. But, each meal was followed by a barrage of questions about his past.

He found himself avoiding her gaze. There was a constant low hum of…something…beneath her words, a subtle undercurrent that made him uneasy.

One evening, he overheard a phone conversation. “He’s adjusting well,” his mother was saying. “But we need to…speed things up.” He froze, his hand instinctively gripping the doorknob.

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