suspicious - Story 145759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, addressed to “Mr. Harrison,” felt like a slap in the face. It was from my ex-wife, Sarah, with whom I had a messy and painful divorce over a decade ago. I felt my face flush with heat. I set the letter aside, not wanting to open it. I grabbed a glass of water and drank it down, trying to calm myself.

I eventually picked it up and started to read, forcing myself to consume the words. Sarah expressed her sorrow for her choices, taking responsibility for the damage she caused. She mentioned a desire to reconnect with our children. The final sentence, her offering of a family lunch, felt like a threat. I felt the muscles in my back tense.

I threw the letter down and walked to the bathroom. I splashed cold water on my face, but the feeling of unease remained. I looked at myself in the mirror, searching for something, a clue, an explanation.

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