suspicious - Story 145455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis after the results came back. Amelia, staring at the screen, felt a wave of nausea. Her life was a carefully constructed tapestry, and the test result had just pulled a thread. The thread was that she had no genetic ties to the people she had known as "family" her whole life.

She tried to rationalize it, to dismiss it as a mistake. But the more she tried, the more the knot in her stomach tightened. She began to observe her parents, watching their interactions, listening to their conversations. Their routines, once comforting, now felt staged. The way her mother always avoided the topic of her early childhood… all the times they’d deflected questions...

She spent hours in her childhood bedroom, re-examining every object, every photograph, seeking answers. The room, once a refuge, was now filled with unanswered questions and an unpleasant chill.

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