suspicious - Story 145610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside as James sat by the fireplace, the flames casting dancing shadows on the walls. He’d found the photographs while clearing out his grandfather’s study.

One picture showed his grandmother, the sweet woman he’d known, riding a horse, in a style that was unlike anything he’d ever seen before. He couldn’t shake the feeling that she had been living a double life.

James closed his eyes. The familiar narrative of his family, the one he had held dear for so long, seemed to be disintegrating. He reached for the bottle of whiskey, wanting to forget the sense of unease that had settled deep within him.

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