suspicious - Story 145376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, are you alright?” Mark’s wife, Carol, had asked him twice, finding him staring at the seemingly innocuous wall behind the kitchen pantry. Mark shook his head, but his gaze remained fixed. The paneling didn't quite match the rest of the room. It felt… off.

He’d been feeling this way since yesterday, that something was just not right. He found a hidden latch, perfectly concealed within the wood grain, which he hadn't noticed before. He swallowed, his throat dry, as he pulled on it. It clicked softly, and the panel slid back.

He heard the sound of Carol approaching behind him. "Mark? What are you doing?" he felt his stomach twist. The doorway was dark and narrow, and the musty air that wafted out felt heavy. "Nothing," he croaked out.

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