suspicious - Story 145515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. John’s father usually filled the space with music or chatter, but today he was uncharacteristically quiet. John’s palms were slick. They were on their way to practice.

He replayed their last conversation. His father had asked pointed questions about his performance, his training regime.

John leaned forward, trying to catch a glimpse of his father’s face in the rearview mirror, but he saw nothing. His gut twisted into a tight knot. The drive felt unending.

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