suspicious - Story 145606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s not right," Leo muttered, staring at the photograph. He had been helping his grandmother with a house clean-up. He’d found an old album in the bottom of a trunk.

The picture showed his great-grandfather, a man his family spoke of with hushed reverence, standing beside a building that was obviously not the family home. He was with a group of people he had never seen before. They all wore unfamiliar uniforms.

Leo felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling of betrayal he couldn't explain. He'd always believed the stories. They were sacred. He was tempted to slam the album closed and leave it, but a strange compulsion kept him there, staring at the unfamiliar faces.

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