suspicious - Story 145779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer announced my sister, Sophia's, inheritance: a beautiful, beachfront property. I, Thomas, was left a collection of seemingly worthless antiques. I felt a sharp pang of something. The lawyer’s words, explaining the supposed “sentimental value,” sounded hollow. Sophia started making all sorts of plans, her face lit with joy.

I mumbled my congratulations, my voice sounding distant. I felt a tingling in my fingers, as if my body wanted to flee. The lawyer had a look about him, almost as if he was watching me. He knew something.

Later, I ran my hands over the cold surfaces of the antiques. Each object seemed to hold a memory, a story I didn’t understand. I began to look at my sister with a different kind of curiosity, and I knew what I must do.

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