suspicious - Story 145544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house felt heavy, oppressive. It seemed to amplify the tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the hall. Lately, David had been distant, barricaded in his room. His mother noticed an extra phone, too.

She usually respected his privacy, but this new behavior was chipping away at her composure. A constant, low-level worry gnawed at her. She tried to catch him in the act, but he was always one step ahead.

One afternoon, she found him at the kitchen table, lost in the glow of his laptop screen. He didn't notice her enter. The screen displayed a brightly-colored website with lots of chatter. She walked over to him. He slammed the laptop shut and turned.

“Mom?” he said, his voice unusually high-pitched. The laptop screen was now dark. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

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