suspicious - Story 145377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as I examined the fireplace. The previous owners had meticulously maintained this place, so why had I never noticed a brick that didn’t quite fit?

A cold wave washed over me. I’d seen the house a dozen times before the sale, but this wasn't right. I pressed on the brick, finding a small give. The brick slid inward, revealing a gap behind the fireplace.

My heart pounded against my ribs. I felt a flush creeping up my neck. I peeked into the darkness of the hidden space. This feeling… this cold dread… felt unwelcome.

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