suspicious - Story 145724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement intensified. Mark flipped over the last box, finding the letter nestled amongst some old photographs. His mother's handwriting, formal and precise, spoke of a reason for her leaving her role. Something that was at odds with the tales of her being very happy in her job. The place she worked at was named differently.

He felt a tightening in his chest. His mother had always been a figure of unwavering stability. Now, this draft letter was challenging everything he thought he knew. He leaned back against the damp concrete wall, the silence of the basement amplifying the questions swirling in his head. The weight of the unknown pressed down on him, a heavy, unsettling presence.

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