suspicious - Story 145357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a tomb. Lisa hated going up there, and she certainly didn't like the fact that the previous occupants had left anything behind.

She found a room filled with forgotten junk. A collection of old paintings leaned against the far wall. One, a portrait of a woman with unsettling eyes, had been propped up against a dusty trunk.

She walked over to the trunk and opened it. Inside she found a long velvet dress, a pair of black leather gloves, and a note. The handwriting wasn’t familiar, and it made her uneasy. The words were cryptic and unsettling.

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