suspicious - Story 145632 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tightening in Thomas’s chest intensified with each line. The letter, found tucked inside an old book, was addressed to his estranged brother, Michael. It was filled with apologies and a desperate plea for connection. He remembered the arguments, the harsh words exchanged. He remembered how he left, slamming the door. The letter spoke of reconciliation. He didn't remember writing it.

He reread the words, the language unfamiliar. The handwriting, though undoubtedly his, felt alien. A knot of unease formed in his gut. The paper seemed to be mocking him. The sincerity, raw and exposed, felt wrong.

He called his brother, the phone ringing inside his ear. Michael picked up. His voice, now older, held a hesitant warmth. “Tommy?” “Michael,” Thomas replied. “Do you… do you remember a letter? A while back?” There was a pause. “Yeah, I do. What about it?” Thomas pressed the phone hard against his ear. The silence felt like a tangible thing.

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