suspicious - Story 145936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gorgeous, aren't they, dear?" Her mother's voice, laced with something that wasn't warmth, reached across the phone line. The peonies, a riot of pink and white, sat on the kitchen counter. No note. No signature. She had not ordered them.

She took a deep breath. She had been seeing someone. But... "Yes, Mother, they are." The lie came easily. She had learned long ago. Her stomach churned.

She hung up, her fingers tracing the edge of the vase. The flowers felt heavy, like a weight she was forced to carry. She had been here before, she knew how it ended. The familiar chill was starting to grow.

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