suspicious - Story 145221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and dusty, catching in Maya’s throat. A shiver ran down her spine despite the stifling heat. She’d always known her mother was a keeper of things, but the boxes stacked haphazardly in the far corner felt... different. A tug, not a gentle pull, drew her closer to them.

She reached for the top box, its cardboard warped with age. Inside, nestled amongst tissue paper, were her school assignments. Every single one. She pulled out a faded book report on *Moby Dick*, her handwriting a mess of loops and uneven pressure. A flush crept up her neck. Why would her mother keep *this*?

A cold feeling settled in her stomach.

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