suspicious - Story 145456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt a jolt of alarm when he saw the results. A perfect match – to a woman he’d never heard of, not even a mention in his mother's vague stories about the family history. His hands trembled as he reread the email. He felt a sudden, inexplicable rush of anger. This DNA test seemed to rip open old wounds.

He drove to his mom's house. The air inside felt thick, heavy. His mother, normally bubbly, was unusually quiet, watching him. He laid the print out. She looked at it, her face a mask of what he couldn't interpret.

"Where did this come from?" she asked finally, her voice thin. The question had a hard edge to it. He remained silent. She seemed to consider her words carefully.

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