suspicious - Story 145099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He awoke to the sound of hushed whispers coming from the hallway. He quietly got out of bed and crept to the door. He pressed his ear against the wood. His mother’s voice, low and urgent.

He couldn't make out the words, but the tone was unmistakable. It was a conspiratorial, almost excited whisper. He retreated back to his bed, his heart hammering against his ribs.

He spent the next few days monitoring his parents, noting their every movement, their every conversation. Every single thing felt out of place. He watched them with a sharp focus that made his eyes water.

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