suspicious - Story 145802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked down Marcus’ spine as he stared at the family tree his aunt had painstakingly assembled. There, in a small, yet prominent branch, was a name: "Serena, born 1988." He felt a lurch in his gut, a disconcerting pressure in his chest. His father had died five years ago, a secret clinging to his grave.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't noticed he did. Serena was the same age as him. He felt the blood drain from his face. How could he not have known about this person? He went to the kitchen and made himself a cup of tea, a futile attempt to calm his racing thoughts.

He felt the need to distance himself from his aunt when she asked him if he'd like to look at the photos. He made an excuse, needing space. He would have to know more. He needed to find out who this woman was, and what she wanted.

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