suspicious - Story 145855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls as Emily examined her grandmother’s list. “Plant a rose garden.” Her grandmother had always been allergic to roses. The contradiction felt jarring.

A coldness settled in her bones. The room felt suddenly too small. “Find true love.” Her grandmother had been happily married for over fifty years. What did it mean?

She felt a building sense of disorientation. The list, once a window into her grandmother's unfulfilled dreams, now seemed like a cryptic message, a puzzle with hidden pieces. She felt like she was being watched.

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