"Eviction?" David scoffed, but his voice was unsteady. He reread the document, searching for a loophole, a mistake, anything. His hands felt cold, his palms slick with sweat.

He went to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city lights blurred, reflecting his own fragmented thoughts. He'd felt something off for weeks, but brushed it aside. Now, the feeling was screaming.

Later, he found himself checking his bank statements, then his phone logs. He was looking for something, anything that could explain this, something that wasn't 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