suspicious - Story 145097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of affection he received was suffocating. Every gesture, every word, seemed calculated. His father, usually reserved, now peppered him with compliments and offered assistance with every task. The warmth was relentless.

He noticed that the locks on the doors had been changed, and he wasn’t given a key. He asked about the change, and his father simply shrugged and said, "For safety, son."

Late one night, he tried to open the back door, and it was locked. He then went to the front door, and it was also locked. The windows were secured. He tried his childhood bedroom window, and it was, too.

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