suspicious - Story 145372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the unease churning in Leo’s stomach. He’d been exploring the dusty basement of the Victorian he and Maya had just purchased. The air hung thick and stale, heavy with the scent of mildew and something else… something faintly metallic.

He’d found a loose brick near the far back wall, tucked behind the furnace. It had come out far too easily. His fingers, usually steady, trembled as he reached into the opening. The space behind was dark, but he could feel a small latch.

“Hey,” Maya called from upstairs. “Find anything interesting?” Her voice sounded miles away. Leo swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. He shouldn't be doing this alone. This felt wrong. The hidden space beckoned. He took a shaky breath, then, with a click, opened the door.

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