suspicious - Story 145639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun, streaming through the window, illuminated dust motes dancing in the air as Maya, going through her late grandmother’s things, found the letter. It was addressed to her grandfather, and contained a secret confession of infidelity. She never knew her grandmother was capable of this.

The words burned in her eyes. It was a secret her family had never mentioned. She felt her face go hot. The letter contained details she did not want to read.

She felt a sudden need to be alone. She went to the park, sat on a bench, and continued to read the letter. The wind rustled the leaves, a melancholic soundtrack to her confusion.

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