suspicious - Story 145374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house was perfect, in every way. Or so Thomas had thought. Then, he’d noticed the painting in the master bedroom. A landscape depicting rolling hills, it hung slightly askew, and he had straightened it countless times. But it always returned to that same, tilted angle.

He'd pulled the painting away from the wall, his hands trembling. The wall behind it was different, the texture of the plaster wasn't the same. He found a small, almost invisible seam. His head swam. This wasn't in the blueprints.

He ran a hand over his face. The air in the room seemed to have thickened. He pressed against the wall, finding a recessed panel. It clicked softly when he pressed it and then slid back, revealing a dim passage. He felt a wave of cold rush past him.

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