suspicious - Story 145548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unease had settled in like a persistent chill, a cold draft swirling around Martha's heart. Her daughter, Olivia, had become evasive. Her phone was permanently attached to her hip. Their conversations were clipped, strained.

One morning, Martha caught sight of a notepad on Olivia's desk. Scribbled on it was a username, a series of numbers and letters she didn't recognise. Intrigued, she pulled out Olivia's laptop. She opened a browser and typed in the name.

A profile popped up. A collection of pictures of Olivia but nothing she could recognize. Martha's hands started to shake. The world tilted slightly on its axis. She quickly closed the browser, the images seared into her memory.

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