suspicious - Story 145402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so eager to get here, to claim his share. The way Michael had practically wrestled the keys from her, grabbing them the moment the lawyer finished speaking, left a knot of unease in her chest.

He paused in the dusty hallway, his eyes scanning the faded wallpaper. Sarah watched him, her arms crossed. He kept running his hands along the wall. Why was he so interested in the house?

“Remember this?” He suddenly asked. His voice was oddly subdued. "Grandma used to tell me stories here..." His eyes narrowed. She had not heard this before, and the way he said it made her feel off-kilter. She did not like this place and she did not like him right now.

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