suspicious - Story 145803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He left you a what?" Chloe asked, her voice laced with disbelief. Her sister, Maya, was staring at a framed photograph of a man she never knew she had. Their shared father. “And a whole apartment?” The photo was propped on a table in front of Maya.

Chloe moved around the table. She observed the photo. A man with the exact eyes that Maya had. His face was a mirror of her sisters. She stood with her arms crossed. This was a complete shock.

Maya shrugged. "Apparently, he had another family. In another state." She looked dazed, as if she couldn't quite believe it. Chloe felt a rising tide of unease, a cold sensation spreading through her limbs.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" she asked, without looking at Maya.

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