suspicious - Story 145378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old books and dust filled the air as Elara ventured into the recently purchased study. The oak paneling, meticulously installed, felt oppressive and dark, a stark contrast to the light and airy rooms of the house. She brushed her fingers over the wood, and a section yielded.

A cold draft swept through the room, raising gooseflesh on her arms. It wasn't the warmth of a fire she craved; it was a distraction from the pit that had formed in her stomach. She stared at the opening she created.

She took a step toward it, then paused. The air tasted stale, and an unsettling stillness permeated the study. This whole situation felt... wrong. She should call someone, but her feet were frozen.

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