suspicious - Story 145373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor had gushed about the "charming quirks" of the old house. Amelia had thought it was quaint. Now, standing in the library, she wasn't so sure. She ran her hand along the bookshelf, feeling for a hidden mechanism. The books were arranged in an odd pattern, and the bottom shelf felt… loose.

A tremor ran through her. Her palms were slick with sweat. The previous owner, a reclusive academic, had been very particular. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. What was behind this wall?

She pressed a specific book, the one on obscure languages. A section of the bookshelf slid inward. A dark opening revealed itself. Amelia felt a cold draft, even though the room was sealed. She felt the urge to run, but her feet seemed rooted to the spot.

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