suspicious - Story 145806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the letter tucked inside an old book. His father's handwriting, shaky, yet familiar. It detailed a woman, a child. His child. A half-sister named Emily. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. He had always believed he knew his father. He was sure he’d known everything. He felt a profound sense of disorientation.

He paced the room, grappling with the new information. He needed to know more about this Emily. He needed to understand how his father could keep such a momentous secret. He needed to find her. The need to reach out, and the fear of what he might find, were warring within him.

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