suspicious - Story 145851 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with dust motes dancing in the single shaft of sunlight. Amelia clutched the yellowed paper, her knuckles white. It was her mother’s bucket list, scribbled in a looping, familiar hand. “Learn to tango.” Amelia tilted her head. Her mother hated dancing. It felt…off.

A knot tightened in her stomach. She reread the list, each item a small, everyday betrayal of the woman she thought she knew. “Visit the Grand Canyon.” Her mother had always professed a fear of heights. Why now?

She slowly lowered herself to the dusty floor. It was all a carefully constructed facade. A performance. Every memory, every story…a lie? The world tilted on its axis. She started to sweat.

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