suspicious - Story 145807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, sent by a distant relative, showed a woman with her arm around a young boy. The boy had the same distinctive birthmark as her father. Laura stared at it, her mouth agape.

A wave of nausea crashed over her. She knew her father was a man of secrets, but this…this felt like a betrayal. A betrayal of their bond. She knew she needed to know who this woman was, and how this new member of the family might affect her.

She closed her eyes, trying to clear her head. She had to stay calm. But the image of the photograph kept replaying in her mind. Her father's child. Her brother. It was a lot to take in.

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