suspicious - Story 145718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The landlord. He’d always been…off. Now, this. Mark couldn’t help but feel a growing sense of dread. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing.

He went to the window, the blinds still drawn, and peered out. The alleyway was dark and empty, but he felt as though he was being watched. The hairs on the back of his neck prickled.

That night, he slept with a baseball bat beside his bed, a cold weight of fear settling over him.

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