suspicious - Story 145549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room felt thick with a strange tension, a feeling that had permeated the house for weeks. David had been unusually secretive. He barely spoke to his parents, spending hours locked in his room, bathed in the blue light of his phone.

His father, Robert, had considered it an phase. Then, one day, he found a receipt. It detailed the purchase of gift cards. He felt a wave of confusion. He didn't understand.

That evening, he went to David's room, knocking softly. Silence. He knocked again, harder. He heard a rustling, a scrambling sound. The door opened a crack, revealing David, his face pale. Robert's gaze drifted past him, to the laptop screen, which was dark, and a flash of the website.

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