suspicious - Story 145483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, containing the demolition notice, had arrived without warning, tucked between junk mail. Michael, usually unflappable, felt his palms grow slick. He reread the dates, the address – his childhood home.

His gaze flicked from the paper to the framed photograph on his desk: him, his younger sister, and their parents, smiling in front of that very house. He felt his throat close up. He was flooded with the feeling that he was being played.

He reached for his phone, dialing his sister's number. Her voice, normally warm, sounded strained when she answered. "I didn't know," she said, her voice dropping. "I thought it was still in the family." Michael hung up the phone. Something was off. He had to go there.

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