suspicious - Story 145955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Eleanor muttered, staring at the contents. A collection of her favorite things, but… different. A book, but with unfamiliar annotations. A bracelet, but the wrong size. And a letter, addressed to her, in her own handwriting, but with a chilling, cryptic message.

She felt a bead of sweat trickle down her temple. She hadn’t buried this, of that she was certain. The items in the time capsule felt like a mocking parody of her life. A shiver ran down her spine. The house, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive.

She had to know the truth. But as she read the letter again, the unsettling feeling grew into a chilling certainty: the truth might be something she couldn't handle. She didn't want to know. Yet, her hands trembled as she reached for a second letter tucked within the box.

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