suspicious - Story 145602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas slammed the album shut. He was in his mother’s study, surrounded by the scent of old books and lavender potpourri. He’d stumbled upon the photographs while looking for a family recipe.

His grandmother, the woman who had always been the epitome of grace and propriety, was laughing, a flash of her teeth against a backdrop of what looked like a boisterous tavern. The man she was laughing with – a man with a handlebar mustache and a mischievous glint in his eye – was clearly not her grandfather.

He felt a prickle of discomfort crawl up his spine. The way her eyes darted away, when he had inquired about her past, suddenly made sense. He needed to find out the truth. He started rummaging through the drawers, searching for any clues to this other man.

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