suspicious - Story 145633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten things. Maria, rummaging through boxes, stumbled upon a small, leather-bound diary. It was hers, from high school, but she had no recollection of it. The cover was worn smooth by the years. Her fingers traced the embossed initials, “M.S.”, slowly.

Inside, the entries were filled with anxieties, unspoken longings, and a deep, unsettling fear of her father. The words, so familiar and yet so distant, made her skin crawl. It was an accurate depiction of her former self, but it didn't feel like *her*.

She found her father in the backyard, tending to his roses. He'd always been a gentle man. "Dad," she began, the diary burning a hole in her palm. "Did you ever… did you ever read my diary when I was a teenager?" He straightened slowly, his eyes narrowing slightly. "Of course not, Maria. Why would I?" Her breath hitched. The sun felt too bright.

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