suspicious - Story 145379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was going through the motions, trying to focus on unpacking, but his attention kept drifting. This place, despite its beauty, held a strange, heavy atmosphere. He found himself drawn to the master bedroom, where he’d been spending most of his time. He’d inspected every inch of the closet, every corner of the room.

He found it, finally: a seam in the wall behind the closet’s built-in shelves. The plaster felt different to the touch, and a subtle shift in the light revealed its outline. His hands shook as he pried the panel away.

He didn't want to look. He knew, with a certainty that chilled him to the core, that what he found wouldn't be good. He leaned in, and peered into the darkness.

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