suspicious - Story 145462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was the first warning. Uncle George, his voice reedy, informed me of the estate sale. "Just getting things in order," he'd mumbled, the words hanging in the air like dust motes in sunlight. He didn't mention *what* things, specifically.

My palms became slick with sweat as I drove towards the old family home. The familiar landscape, once comforting, now felt alien. A vague unrest prickled at the back of my neck.

He was in the sunroom, the prized silver tea set laid out on a table, already tagged with a price. George seemed unnaturally jovial, clapping me on the back, offering iced tea. His forced cheerfulness grated on my nerves.

I eyed the tea set, the light reflecting off its polished surfaces. I remembered my grandmother using it, the clink of the cups, the warmth in her smile. A knot tightened in my chest. Something felt profoundly off.

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