suspicious - Story 145409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of mothballs hung heavy in the air. The basement was cold and damp, a place she hadn't visited in years. Her brother, Samuel, insisted on going down first.

He was being unusually insistent about the entire thing. The way he grabbed the flashlight from her, the tight set of his jaw, his curtness.

The beam of light danced across the shadows, revealing cobwebs and forgotten relics. She did not want to go down there. She couldn't shake the sensation that something was hidden, or something had happened.

His footsteps echoed ominously. Why did this feel so foreboding?

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