suspicious - Story 145453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adoption agency's website looked more intimidating than usual. Emily, staring at the screen, felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She had always felt a pull toward her biological background. Now, with a DNA test result confirming she was adopted, that pull had become a rope, dragging her. She stared at the screen, heart racing.

She called her mother. The phone rang, then her mother answered. Her mother's tone was breezy, "Hey, sweetie! What's up?" When Emily mentioned the test results, the breezy cheerfulness vanished. Emily could almost hear the intake of breath on the other end.

A long silence followed. Then, in a voice Emily barely recognized, her mother said, "Let's talk in person." The words felt heavy, the invitation unwelcome. Emily felt a wash of bewilderment.

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