suspicious - Story 145354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor had made a big deal about the house's "charming quirks." Now, staring at the attic access, Michael wondered if he'd been sold a bill of goods. This "charm" felt off.

He dragged a flimsy stepladder over and cautiously pulled down the stairs. The air in the attic was thick, heavy with the scent of decay. A child's rocking horse, missing one eye, sat in the center of the floor.

A chill ran up his spine. Beneath the horse, partially covered by a moth-eaten rug, was a small, locked metal box. He didn't like the look of this one bit.

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