suspicious - Story 145859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the window as Jessica held her aunt’s bucket list. “Learn to sail.” Her aunt, who was afraid of the ocean. The paper felt like it was burning in her hands.

A creeping unease spread through her. “Open a bakery.” Her aunt hated to cook. She looked around the room, feeling exposed, like a deer in headlights.

She reread the list, her eyes darting from item to item. It all seemed false. Her pulse raced. What was she missing? What secrets were buried beneath this fabricated facade? The questions clawed at her.

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