suspicious - Story 145729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old desk in the spare bedroom creaked as Chloe opened the drawer. There, tucked away amongst some tax documents, was the letter. It was from her father, a resignation letter. The company mentioned was not one she'd ever heard of.

Her breath hitched. The words spoke of disillusionment, of a struggle she never knew. Her father, the steady rock, had a secret. She ran a hand over the surface of the desk, the wood suddenly feeling unfamiliar and cold. A strange sense of dislocation washed over her. She had to delve deeper, to untangle the threads of this untold story.

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