suspicious - Story 145226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, pacing in the hallway. It had started with the seemingly innocent task of clearing out the spare bedroom. Now, a strange unease had settled inside of him.

He’d found the boxes, hidden behind old furniture. His schoolwork. All of it. He remembered the arguments, the missed deadlines. Every piece of paper held a memory, a story. But why had his mother kept it?

He paused, a knot forming in his stomach. The air around him felt close.

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