suspicious - Story 145809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the DNA test results that sealed it. The letter from the lab. The stark black text on the white paper. The confirmation. He wasn't an only child. A brother, residing in another city. Mark couldn’t quite process the information.

He crumpled the paper in his fist, his knuckles white. He had always been so sure of his family. Now, everything felt unstable. A stranger, connected to him by blood.

He walked over to his bookshelf. His eyes scanned the titles. He felt exposed, as if the walls of his home had suddenly become transparent. He had to know everything. He had to know the whys and hows.

He needed to find out who this brother was, and what his arrival meant.

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