suspicious - Story 145808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The inheritance documents arrived, detailing a share in his father's estate and a letter. The letter, penned in a graceful, unfamiliar hand, was from a woman named Sophia. It stated that he had a brother, a child of his father’s, named Ethan.

He tossed the papers on the kitchen table. He stared at the letter with a frown. The words swam before his eyes. He had always been told he was an only child. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of anger.

He knew nothing about Sophia, nothing about Ethan. His mind raced, cataloging the questions that needed answering. He had to uncover the truth.

He found himself constantly checking his phone. Would she be in touch? Would the brother be in touch? The unknown was a heavy weight.

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