suspicious - Story 145774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had a watery gaze as she explained the details. My sister, Genevieve, was to receive their parents’ grand Victorian house. It had always been her dream. I, however, was left a modest trust fund, enough for a comfortable life, they said. I stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The lawyer's smile never reached her eyes.

"It's about memories," she'd said. "Sentimental value." I had to blink, and wipe my forehead.

Genevieve was already planning the renovations, her voice filled with excitement. I nodded, offering forced agreement, but a heavy weight settled in my chest. I thought about the house, the countless hours spent there, the secrets hidden within its walls. I knew that place. The lawyer's nervous cough seemed to punctuate my thoughts. I felt as though something was being kept from me, a carefully guarded secret. I didn't like it one bit.

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