suspicious - Story 145458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The report told a stark, undeniable story. Kevin felt a sense of disorientation, and a growing distrust he couldn't control. He started by looking into his parents' eyes, searching for deception. He looked for the tiny, almost invisible cracks in their carefully constructed facade.

He started digging. He found old photographs, old letters hidden in an attic trunk. His hands shook as he read through them, piecing together fragments of a past that wasn't his. He felt an intense need to understand, even if the truth was painful.

He started visiting the local library, poring over old newspaper articles, searching for anything that would connect him to his biological family. He felt a compulsion, a need that consumed him.

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