suspicious - Story 145970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, faded paper crackled in her fingers. She found it tucked inside her husband's childhood photo album. It was a bucket list, in his adolescent script, but with a different focus than she knew he had. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the familiar onset of tears.

The list had items she hadn't encountered, plans she hadn't understood. She couldn't tell him how she felt.

She sat alone, the silence of the house pressing in on her, and re-read the list. The air around her felt thick and charged. She wanted to scream.

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