suspicious - Story 145682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza hadn't touched her stamp collection in years. It was her sanctuary, a private haven of colorful squares and historical narratives. Now, her daughter, Maya, was engrossed. He found her locked in the library, the stamps spread out on the table in a meticulous grid, the magnifying glass glinting under the dim light. She heard him enter, looked up, and quickly closed the album.

"What are you doing in here, Mom?" Maya asked, her voice a little too breezy, a little too casual. Her eyes didn't quite meet hers.

Eliza felt a prickle of unease crawl up her spine. "Just… checking on you." She walked forward and saw one of the albums open. Maya quickly moved to close the album again. The little details, the little movements…it all felt off. She took a deep breath. Something was amiss.

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