suspicious - Story 145351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door, a gaping maw in the ceiling, felt wrong. It always had. Ever since moving into the old Victorian, Sarah had avoided the attic. Now, compelled by a nagging unease, she wrestled the door open, the hinges groaning in protest. Dust motes danced in the lone shaft of sunlight slicing through the gloom.

A trunk, bound in tarnished brass, sat center stage. Sarah’s pulse quickened. She pulled a small, silver key from her pocket, the one the realtor had left behind with the words, "might be useful". The key fit.

Her hands trembled as she lifted the lid. Inside, nestled in yellowed tissue paper, were letters, photographs, and a small, intricately carved wooden box. A sense of wrongness prickled at her skin. Why had these things been hidden?

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