suspicious - Story 145470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The inherited estate was a mess, and my brother, Daniel, was the appointed executor. He was usually organized, but now he was distracted. His eyes darted around, avoiding mine.

We were in the living room, surrounded by furniture that had been in the family for decades. He kept looking at the china cabinet, then back at me.

"We need to get rid of some things," he finally said, his voice flat. "It's too much." He gestured towards the collection of antique teacups.

The way his brow furrowed, the quick glances, the way he kept fiddling with his watch... Something felt deeply off-kilter.

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