suspicious - Story 145635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, the silence amplifying every creak and groan. Evelyn held the letter, her fingers tracing the faded ink. It was addressed to her sister, whom she hadn't spoken to in years. The contents were filled with accusations, sharp judgments, and a venom she barely recognized as her own. She didn't remember the writing process.

Each sentence was a slap in the face, a reminder of a past she preferred to forget. Why would she want to dig up these old feelings? The more she read, the more tightly she clenched the paper. A wave of nausea hit her.

Her sister lived a few blocks away. Evelyn suddenly felt a need to see her. She stood on the porch for several moments before knocking on the door. It opened, revealing her sister's smiling face. “Evelyn! What a surprise." Evelyn stood there, unable to speak, the letter a heavy weight in her hand.

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