suspicious - Story 145222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam hovered in the doorway of his childhood bedroom, the door slightly ajar. He’d come to find his old baseball glove, but the sight of the meticulously organized filing cabinets was arresting. He approached slowly.

He pulled open a drawer. "Liam Carter, 2nd Grade," read the label. A neatly typed essay on “My Favorite Pet” stared back at him. Every paper from every grade. He ran a hand over his jaw. His mother had always been... attentive.

He picked up a blue folder. "Liam Carter, High School." His history tests. His math quizzes. All marked, graded, and preserved. A knot tightened in his chest. A strange sort of pressure filled the room.

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