suspicious - Story 145401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deed to the house was clutched in Amelia's sweaty hand. Her brother, Leo, hummed a tuneless melody as he walked through the overgrown garden. A prickling sensation crawled up her spine. The air felt heavy, stagnant, as if holding its breath. He was being unusually cheery, considering they’d just buried their grandmother.

“Smell that, Amelia? Lilacs,” Leo announced, pointing to a bush choked with purple blooms. His smile seemed a little too bright, his voice a little too loud.

Amelia forced a smile of her own. “Yes, lovely.” She kept her gaze fixed on the peeling paint of the back door, wondering if she should suggest they leave. Her stomach churned. Something felt wrong, terribly wrong. She knew her grandmother’s lilacs were a symbol of happiness, but today, they felt like a taunt.

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