suspicious - Story 145468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call from my uncle came late at night. He sounded flustered, his words tumbling over each other. "The painting… it's gone," he stammered. The painting was a portrait of my great-grandmother, a family treasure.

I sat up in bed, my heart hammering against my ribs. "Gone? What do you mean, gone?" I demanded.

His story about an art thief was sketchy and unconvincing. He kept repeating himself, his voice wavering. I knew something was amiss.

I dressed quickly, a cold dread washing over me. The drive felt long and lonely. Something was being concealed.

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