The scent of crayons now filled the air with an unsettling nostalgia. I couldn't shake the image of that figure, its unsettling grin, its mismatched eyes. I began to find excuses to avoid visiting, but eventually, I had to.

I felt a chill wash over me as I entered the house. The drawings were everywhere, a vibrant, nightmarish tapestry. Amelia giggled as she coloured.

"Look, Uncle Mark!" she exclaimed, holding up a drawing. My breath hitched. It was Mr. Grin, but this time… he was looking directly at me.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284