suspicious - Story 145636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David, hunched over his desk, stared at the letter. It was written to his best friend, who had tragically passed away years ago. The letter was filled with secrets, confessions, and regrets – things he would have never voiced aloud. He remembered that time in his life, but not the letter.

A coldness spread through his limbs. The writing looked like his, but it felt like a stranger's voice. He ran a hand over his face. The air in his study felt thick and suffocating.

He went to his best friend's wife's house. She was kind, always had been. He hadn't seen her in years, but he needed to ask. He fumbled with the words, his mouth dry. He said, "Do you... by any chance… have you seen an old letter of mine?" Her expression was unchanged. She blinked once, slowly. "No, David. I haven't."

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