suspicious - Story 145764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, charged with an unseen energy. David squinted at the empty space. His stomach began to churn. He'd come back to visit his childhood home after years abroad, and the sturdy cedar he'd planted with his grandmother was now just a stump.

He examined the stump closely. The cut looked clean, professional. He crouched down, running his fingers across the exposed wood, feeling the coldness of it. It did not make sense. He found himself picking at a splinter, the wood hard and unyielding.

He rose slowly. He felt a need to know. He started looking around his mother's house, his eyes darting to every corner of the yard.

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