suspicious - Story 145408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman's diaries were locked in a steel case. As they left the lawyer's office, their brother, Henry, had practically sprinted to his car. Now, in the house, he was gone, and she knew exactly where he had gone.

The silence of the house was not calming. It was suffocating. She felt a knot in her gut. She could only imagine what he was doing. She wanted to yell at him.

She found him in her grandmother's study, grappling with the locks. His breath was ragged. His face flushed. The metal glinted in the half-light. Her hands started to shake.

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