suspicious - Story 145853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, a fragrance her father had always avoided, filled the air in the bedroom. Sarah ran a trembling hand over the worn pages of his list. “Take a pottery class.” Her father, a gruff accountant, wouldn’t be caught dead near a pottery wheel. It seemed improbable.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt a chill, despite the warm spring day. "Write a novel." He never talked about writing. Her father had hated creative pursuits, and discouraged her own love of art when she was a child. The list felt like a cruel joke.

She began pacing the room, her footsteps echoing in the silence. The items on the paper seemed like riddles, taunting her with their implications. She needed to understand. She had to.

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