suspicious - Story 145801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Eleanor's inbox, bold and taunting. "Your father's will." She hadn't seen her father in years, not since the acrimonious divorce. But a lawyer's missive was hard to ignore. She clicked, her fingers trembling slightly. The document mentioned a beneficiary she'd never heard of: a "Liam, residing in Portland." A knot tightened in her stomach.

Eleanor reread the section about the inheritance. He’d get a significant portion. A wave of heat washed over her. She got up, pacing her small apartment. Portland? Liam was a stranger, a ghost. This was an unsettling wrinkle in the tapestry of her life.

She picked up her phone, scrolling through contacts, eventually settling on her mother’s number. The tone was sharp, her voice tinged with frost, when she asked "Do you know who Liam is?"

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