suspicious - Story 145726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad?” Liam called, his voice tight. He'd found the letter in a box of his father's old possessions, a letter of resignation from a job he never mentioned. He found his father in the garden, pruning roses. “Did you… did you ever work at a place called…?”

His father turned, his face unreadable. He held the shears, his knuckles white. "What's that, son?" he asked, his voice low. Liam held out the letter. A beat of silence hung in the air, heavy and thick. His father's eyes flicked over the paper, then back to Liam.

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