suspicious - Story 145459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The DNA results, indicating no connection to his parents, left Mark feeling adrift. His stomach was a tight knot, a constant reminder of the uncertainty that had begun. The world around him seemed to lose definition, colors bleeding into one another.

He looked at his parents, scrutinizing their every move, every word. Their usual warmth felt forced, a performance he couldn't quite decipher. The way his father avoided his gaze, the way his mother kept nervously touching her necklace... The behaviors were not like them.

He went through his old baby pictures, trying to find some resemblance, something to anchor him. Everything felt… hollow. He felt a growing alienation.

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