suspicious - Story 145371 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper in the guest bathroom felt… off. It was a floral print, a faded peach color, and perfectly aligned, except for one panel behind the mirror. That panel had a slight bulge, barely noticeable, but it snagged Elara’s attention like a loose thread on a favorite sweater. She ran a fingernail along the seam. The plaster felt different there, colder.

“Just remodeling quirks,” she muttered to herself, but her heart thumped a quick rhythm against her ribs. She tapped the wall. A hollow sound echoed back. Her breath hitched. The previous owners, a sweet elderly couple, had never mentioned anything like this.

Elara grabbed a screwdriver from the kitchen. The wallpaper tore easily, revealing a dark recess. Inside, a small, wooden door. She hesitated, a prickling sensation crawling over her skin. This house, their dream home, suddenly felt… different.

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