suspicious - Story 145603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the scent of mildew and decaying wood. Sarah wiped the sweat from her brow as she sifted through boxes. Her uncle, known for his stoicism and quiet demeanor, was an enigma to her.

She found a photo album. Inside, pictures documented a life that bore little resemblance to the family narratives. Her uncle, posed with a group of people, looked at ease. They were all lounging on the beach, and looked to be laughing.

The smile never reached his eyes now. She felt a knot tighten in her chest. This was not the man she thought she knew. She had a sudden urge to get out of the suffocating room, away from the weight of unspoken secrets.

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