suspicious - Story 145687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His chess set, a hand-carved masterpiece, sat on his desk. He had spent years studying the moves, the strategies. His son, Ethan, had never shown any interest. Until now. He came home from work and found Ethan sitting there, pieces scattered.

"Ethan, what's going on here?" he asked, his voice strained. He felt an undeniable tension grip him.

Ethan didn't meet his eyes, instead busying himself with rearranging the pieces, and mumbling an excuse about “learning some strategies.” He could feel his face burning. Something was off.

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