suspicious - Story 145805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was short, abrupt. "Your brother is coming to visit," her mother said. Amelia felt a physical jolt, a sudden urge to flee. "He'll be here next week."

Amelia's fingers tightened around the phone. A brother? She swallowed hard. This was all so foreign. She had always been alone, the only child.

She tried to picture the man, a stranger now suddenly family. She went to the window, staring out at the familiar street. The world looked different now, tainted by an unknown element.

Her mom had said he'd be staying at their place. The thought churned in her stomach. What was the truth? She felt like she was being watched.

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