suspicious - Story 145407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent had been unusually keen to sell them the house. Now, standing in the living room with her brother, Ben, she felt a creeping sense of unease. He had hardly spoken a word since they'd arrived, instead, pacing back and forth, examining the walls.

"What do you think?" she finally asked, breaking the silence. He didn't respond. Instead, he just kept looking around the room.

His gaze lingered on a small, antique cabinet. He walked over to it, but didn't open it. The air in the room felt tight, constricting. She felt claustrophobic, trapped.

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