The letter arrived on a Tuesday. The day of the demolition was Friday. Amelia clutched the paper, her knuckles white. She had been at the house recently, but she felt no connection. It had been years since she'd cared.

She paced the length of her apartment. It wasn't the house she cared about, but the abruptness. The secrecy. The way the deal had been made.

She knew she had to go, if only to find out what someone wanted to hide.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284