suspicious - Story 145360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the house settled on John’s shoulders. Something was off about the place, and he could feel it growing stronger. The attic always seemed to amplify that feeling.

He found it full of old furniture and forgotten relics. Then, in a far corner, he saw it: A small, wooden music box, its lid slightly ajar.

He picked it up, his hands clammy. He wound the key and listened as it began to play. The tune was haunting, familiar, but he couldn't place it. He knew, with sudden, chilling clarity, that he was no longer alone in the house.

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