suspicious - Story 145089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the blueprints in the trash, ripped and crumpled. They were for a concrete wall, not a fence. A solid, unyielding barrier. The implications of that filled her with an overwhelming sense of dread.

The concrete wall.

She had seen him in the garage the past few days, welding equipment. She had heard him grunting.

The pieces didn't fit. The pictures he was putting on the wall, the way he would lock the door. She tried not to think about it. Now, it was all she could think about. She felt trapped.

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