suspicious - Story 145457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza, staring at the results, felt a coldness spread through her limbs. She had always felt a disconnect from her family. The DNA report confirmed that. Now, staring at the screen, she felt like a stranger, walking through an unknown land. She began to dissect her memories, searching for clues, for anything that might explain the disparity.

She reread her childhood journal, searching for signs, hoping to find her true self. Her penmanship, her choices… everything felt alien. She felt an urge to understand, and also a growing dread.

The next day, she visited her aunt, a woman she’d always been close to. She started a conversation about family history, but her aunt changed the subject. The avoidance made her feel like something was being hidden. The entire interaction felt contrived, and Eliza knew, with grim certainty, that something was very wrong.

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