suspicious - Story 145608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the dusty window of the storage room. Michael felt a tremor run through him as he looked at the pictures. He was helping his cousin sift through some old belongings.

He saw a photograph of his grandmother standing in front of a church, with a man who was not her husband. He was smiling at her, a look of tenderness on his face that was unfamiliar.

He closed his eyes. The way his family spoke of their lives, always so upbeat, now felt artificial, a carefully constructed façade. He started to wonder what else they had been hiding.

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