suspicious - Story 145096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to shake it off, but the feeling lingered. Every night, his mother would leave a glass of milk and a plate of cookies on his nightstand. Such a sweet, thoughtful gesture, and yet… it felt wrong.

He began to examine the house, exploring every nook and cranny. He found a locked box in the attic. The lock was old, but he managed to force it open with a hairpin. Inside, he found a collection of photographs, none of which he could place. There was also a single, dried flower.

The next morning, the box was gone. His mother smiled. "I put it back in the attic," she said, her voice unusually flat.

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