suspicious - Story 145945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was unusually thick. It was always noisy with chatter, and laughter, but tonight it was only quiet. Sarah had been distracted for weeks. Lately, she had been spending hours locked away in her study, emerging with a strained smile and a forced cheerfulness.

He sat on the couch, the remote useless in his hand. He found himself walking to the study door, his steps slow and measured. He peered through the crack, and saw Sarah typing furiously. He couldn't make out the words, but the way she chewed on her lip, the furrow of her brow, was enough.

He saw a notebook peeking out from under her desk. He waited until she was out, and then carefully opened it. Page after page, filled with details of their life, events, and observations. He was unnerved by the precise descriptions of their intimate moments.

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