suspicious - Story 145359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to hum with a secret. The attic, as always, was where the secret would be. Anna had been avoiding the attic for weeks. Now, the compulsion to explore was overwhelming.

She pushed open the door and climbed the stairs. In the center of the attic sat a large, old gramophone. It had been covered with a dusty sheet.

She removed the sheet and gently lifted the lid. Inside, she found a stack of old records. The first one she picked up had a strange inscription on the label, and it sent a cold shiver down her spine. The house, she thought, was not what it seemed.

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