suspicious - Story 145460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the results appeared on her screen, Chloe felt an oppressive weight settle on her chest. The results, confirming she was not biologically related to her family, had an awful effect.

She felt a gnawing anxiety that wouldn't subside. She started to pay attention to every detail of her life, searching for discrepancies. The familiar house felt foreign, her belongings seemed like props.

She asked her parents about the matter, and they deflected, changing the subject, their responses seemed rehearsed. She pressed further, and they grew irritable. Each interaction left her feeling more isolated, as though she were a detective on a case with a very tight deadline.

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