suspicious - Story 145482 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They just… bought it?" Clara repeated, the realtor’s words echoing in the empty, dust-filled hallway. The realtor, a woman with a saccharine smile, nodded vigorously. The quick sale and the abrupt notice had been unnerving.

A prickle ran up Clara’s spine. The house had been in her family for generations. Aunt Millie's sudden, unexplained decision to sell, followed by a buyer who wanted it gone immediately, felt… wrong. She'd known Aunt Millie's secret fondness for the home.

Clara ran her hand along the chipped paint of the banister, a small shiver crawling across her back. She’d found something in the attic she knew her aunt was looking for when she was still a child. It was gone now. She stepped out onto the porch, squinting at the sunlight. She needed answers and she wasn't going to get any.

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