suspicious - Story 145542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a coldness creeping across his chest as he walked past Maya's room. He'd seen her, recently, on the phone much more. He'd also noticed a new password on her laptop, one she wouldn't share. This wasn't like her. He'd always known everything.

He circled back, drawn by an almost magnetic pull. The glow of her phone illuminated the underside of the door, a beacon in the darkened hallway. He leaned in, listening. The sounds of hushed laughter drifted through the cracks. It was a language he didn't understand, a conversation he wasn't privy to.

He reached for the doorknob. His hand hesitated for a moment, then twisted, the door swinging open to reveal Maya, eyes wide, phone clutched to her chest. A flurry of deletion and quick-button pressing.

“Dad!” she gasped, her face going pale. He didn't say anything, his gaze moving from her to the phone and back again. The air crackled with unspoken accusations.

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