suspicious - Story 145967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, folded piece of paper felt weighty in her hand. Maria had been cleaning out the glove compartment of Daniel’s car when she found it. The handwriting was messy, rushed. The list, however, was precise. She unfolded the page. The entries felt like slaps in the face.

She read it again and again, each time feeling more detached from herself. The list was about a life she didn't know, a person she didn’t recognize.

Her initial shock gave way to a cold, creeping anger. She wanted to confront him, to demand answers. But she held back, unable to give voice to the unspoken questions. She was frozen in place.

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