suspicious - Story 145854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had just left, the will finalized. Liam held the bucket list, its neat handwriting mocking him. “Go on a cruise.” His mother had been terrified of boats. Liam stared at it, a cold dread washing over him. It wasn’t making sense.

He felt a distinct unease, like an unsettling pressure. A tremor ran through his hand. “Learn to speak Italian.” His mother never expressed interest in the language. Every item was a subtle jab at the woman he thought he knew.

He reread the list, focusing on the small, precise details of her handwriting, looking for a clue, for a misplaced accent, for anything that might unlock the sudden mystery. He had to know the truth. The unease grew.

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