suspicious - Story 145965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a shiver down Emily’s spine. The list was tucked inside a book on the shelf of the guest room, a room she rarely entered. She recognized the handwriting instantly. It was her wife's. Each item felt like a secret whispered in a language she didn't understand.

“Learn to sail.” “See the Northern Lights.” “Fall in love again.” The final entry stopped her breath. Fall in love again?

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She replayed their recent conversations, searching for clues, for hints. A dull ache settled behind her eyes. Why was this hidden? Why wasn't she sharing this with her?

The evening was a blur of forced smiles and strained conversation. She kept glancing at her, searching her face, trying to decipher the unreadable expression.

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