suspicious - Story 145224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the kitchen, staring at his reflection in the window. The afternoon sun cast long shadows, mimicking the lines etched on his face. He'd been asked to clean out his mother's study. The task, however, had left him with an odd sensation.

He’d found the treasure trove. A mountain of folders labeled with his name and the years. He'd flipped through some of them, his blood running cold. Why? What was the purpose?

He ran a hand over his eyes. The world seemed to shift slightly. He could almost hear his mother’s voice in the quiet house. A new, disquieting sensation had taken hold.

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