suspicious - Story 145299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with the locked door in the basement. He’d gone down to do laundry, and it was clear that someone had been down there before him.

His friends started to show up at his place a few weeks before his birthday. They were acting...off. They seemed to have difficulty maintaining eye contact.

Then, there was the phone call from his sister, who told him that his mother had been ill. It was a lie. They had all been lying.

He wasn’t sure why everyone was acting so strangely. He was starting to suspect something. He was suddenly overwhelmed with a need to investigate.

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