suspicious - Story 145375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten things, or so Sarah had believed. Then, while clearing out boxes, she tripped over a loose floorboard. It lifted easily, revealing a hollow space beneath.

She stared, her breath caught in her throat. The wood was old, almost black with age. A metallic smell hung in the air. She crouched down, her pulse hammering in her ears. She felt a pressure in her chest, a sense of foreboding.

She peered into the darkness, using her phone's flashlight. She saw nothing but shadows. The air grew colder, and a chill spread over her skin. She had to know what was in there.

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