suspicious - Story 145488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew was already at work when Ben arrived. Dust billowed from the roof, obscuring the view. He felt a deep, instinctive aversion to the scene.

He stood and watched. He looked at the hurried way the workers moved. The owner was nowhere to be seen. He didn’t want his home to fall, yet he couldn't help but feel a sudden, intense apprehension.

He thought of the family stories. The hidden places. The things his parents had never talked about. He knew he should have come sooner.

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