suspicious - Story 145098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house felt thick, heavy. He couldn't quite define it, but there was an unnatural stillness. His parents seemed to be constantly watching him, their eyes following his every move.

He started keeping a journal, writing down everything that felt off, every uncomfortable interaction, every strange detail. He hid it under his mattress, but one morning, it was missing.

That evening, he was invited to dinner. His mother prepared his favorite dish, but when he took his first bite, a wave of nausea washed over him.

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