suspicious - Story 145780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the document felt heavy in my hands. My sister, Beatrice, inherited the family's renowned publishing house. I, Finn, was left with a single, handwritten manuscript. The lawyer, his voice smooth, offered the usual platitudes about "legacy" and "family history."

Beatrice was already planning on the future, her eyes shining with ambition. I felt something akin to vertigo, and focused on keeping my posture. I knew something was not quite right.

I clutched the manuscript, its pages filled with a story I didn't recognize. The lawyer’s gaze lingered on me, and then he left. I felt a prickling sensation at the back of my neck. I began to read. The more I read, the more certain I was that I needed to know more.

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