suspicious - Story 145352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic hatch. The air held a strange stillness, a pressure. It had been sealed up tight for years, according to the neighbours. Now, a faint draft seemed to be emanating from it.

Mark grabbed a flashlight and a crowbar, his stomach twisting. He hated this feeling, the way his gut tightened with every creak of the stairs.

The lock on the attic door offered little resistance. He pulled it open, the beam of his flashlight cutting through the inky blackness. A mannequin, its painted eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, was the first thing he saw. He had the feeling, the deep-down certainty that something was not right.

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