suspicious - Story 145948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house was heavy. The air was charged, like before a storm. Rachel found Daniel staring out of the window. His eyes were distant, as if he was thinking deeply about something.

He started spending more time in the sunroom, refusing to let her near his computer. One day, he'd left the screen open. A file titled "The Summer of Us." He felt a tightening in his stomach.

She walked over to the desk. The document was an intimate portrayal of their life, but with embellishments, fabrications, and a hint of a darker undercurrent. It was a stranger's perspective on their life.

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