suspicious - Story 145100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been home for a decade, and in that time, his father had passed away. His mother, however, seemed to have aged a century, her face lined with a sorrow that he didn't recognize.

Yet, despite her apparent grief, the house felt… sterile. Every surface sparkled, every object was perfectly positioned. It was a showcase, not a home. The air was heavy with perfume, a scent he associated with hospitals.

One night, he found a hidden compartment behind a bookshelf. Inside was a collection of letters. The handwriting was his father’s, but the language was unfamiliar, filled with strange phrases and coded messages. He felt a profound chill, a deep sense of dread.

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