suspicious - Story 145727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen table, illuminated by the cold fluorescent light. Amelia reread the words, each sentence a stab. Her father had always seemed so… ordinary. But this letter, written decades ago, revealed a hidden layer, a life she didn't know. The job he left wasn't the one he'd often talked about.

She pushed back from the table, the chair scraping against the linoleum. The mundane surroundings of her kitchen suddenly felt alien, the space around her filled with unseen secrets. She began pacing, her steps quick, restless. Why hadn't he told her? What else had he kept from her?

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