suspicious - Story 145464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure, Mom?" I asked, my voice wavering. My mother, usually so decisive, seemed almost fragile. She was staring at her father's pocket watch, a gold timepiece that had been in the family for over a century.

Her fingers danced around the watch, tracing the engraved initials. Her eyes flickered, avoiding mine. "It's… for the best," she said softly, but I caught the tremor in her voice.

The timing felt wrong. The repairs on the house were finished months ago. She hadn't mentioned any financial hardship. What was she *really* up to?

I crossed my arms, feeling a chill despite the warmth of the room. I didn't believe her. The way she kept looking away, the forced smile… something wasn't right.

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