suspicious - Story 145601 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things. Amelia coughed, waving away a cobweb that brushed her face. She’d been tasked with clearing out the space after her grandmother's passing, a duty she approached with a heavy heart and a growing unease.

A small, ornate wooden box sat tucked under a pile of moth-eaten blankets. Inside, nestled amongst faded lace, were photographs. One showed her grandfather, handsome and smiling, leaning against a vintage car. But the car wasn't the Ford he'd always claimed to have owned; it was a sleek, unfamiliar make.

A coldness settled in her stomach. She felt her fingers tremble as she examined the details. The background hinted at a location she didn't recognize, and the man beside her grandfather, with an arm slung casually over his shoulder, was a stranger. Why hadn’t her family ever mentioned any of this?

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