suspicious - Story 145778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt stifling. My brother, Daniel, was the recipient of a substantial amount of shares in a successful tech company. The lawyer described the details in a monotone, and I felt nothing but a wave of nausea. My inheritance? A collection of old photographs and a dusty box of letters. The difference was too much.

Daniel’s chest puffed up with pride. He shook the lawyer's hand enthusiastically, then turned to me, his smile wide. He seemed genuinely pleased, but I felt a growing sense of unease. He was so excited, so certain of his future. I felt a growing pressure in my chest.

Later, as I sifted through the photographs, I found a picture of my parents in a familiar spot. They looked happy, but I knew the picture wasn't quite right. The letters were filled with secrets. I felt like I was standing on the precipice of something unknown. This felt wrong.

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