suspicious - Story 145481 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew’s truck idled at the curb, engine coughing out a plume of gray smoke that felt like a personal insult. Leo crossed his arms, his jaw tight. He hadn’t been back to the house in years, not since… well, not since it stopped being a home. Now, the new owners, whoever they were, were eager to erase it.

He walked around the perimeter of the property, his hands shoved deep in his pockets. The chain-link fence, recently installed, felt unnecessary. He peered through the gaps, cataloging the subtle shifts in the familiar landscape. The oak tree in the front yard, once a sapling he'd helped his father plant, loomed, its branches now heavy with age.

His gut churned. He watched the foreman talking on his phone, then point to the roof. The rhythmic thump of his heart intensified as he moved toward the house, closer to the front door.

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