The apartment felt like a pressure cooker, the air thick with unspoken words. Jake’s silence was more unsettling than any argument. I'd shot down the idea of a snake, claiming a phobia.

He'd been unusually compliant, agreeing without a fight. But his eyes were like two black holes, sucking in all the light. He kept watching me.

I walked to the front door, unlocked it. I walked to the back door, and I did the same. I walked to the balcony, and I looked down. The world looked different from up there.

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