suspicious - Story 145465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's office smelled of stale air and old paper. Aunt Clara, her face a mask of polite indifference, sat across from me. She was discussing my grandfather's collection of antique books, specifically the first edition of *Moby Dick*.

My gaze drifted to her hands, nervously fiddling with the clasp of her handbag. Her voice was unusually bland, devoid of its usual warmth.

The lawyer droned on about valuations and market trends, but I could barely concentrate. Clara’s sudden eagerness to sell the collection felt abrupt, out of character. She'd always cherished those books, often spending hours in the library.

A dryness filled my mouth. Why the sudden change of heart? Why now? The feeling in my stomach was one of unease.

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