suspicious - Story 145963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and old paper filled Amelia’s nostrils as she discovered the list hidden under Liam’s sock drawer. His handwriting was unfamiliar, almost childish. She carefully unfolded the single sheet. It was a single-spaced, typewritten document. "Go skydiving." "Write a novel." "Meet someone new." A wave of heat flushed her cheeks.

She tried to rationalize it. Maybe it was an old list. Maybe he’d forgotten about it. But the recent dates next to the experiences told a different story.

Later, she found herself staring out the window, the evening light painting the room in long shadows. The phone rang, and she jumped, startled. Her gaze drifted to the framed photo of them, happy and smiling. Was it real, that happiness? She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms.

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