suspicious - Story 145490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s words, "sold as is, no questions asked," echoed in David's mind as he approached the house. He saw the 'sold' sign. It was always a strange feeling.

He walked slowly, the gravel crunching beneath his feet. The house, usually vibrant and alive, appeared lifeless and vulnerable. He felt a sharp pang of discomfort, a prickling sensation at the back of his neck.

He felt something was hidden, buried, perhaps, within those walls. The abrupt sale, the eagerness to demolish… it felt like a hasty attempt to conceal something. He had to know.

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