suspicious - Story 145781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's headline blared: "Charming Colonial, Move-In Ready!" Sarah scrolled through the photos, each perfectly staged, each utterly *wrong*. The vibrant paint colors, the modern furniture...none of it jived with the dusty, lived-in feel she remembered. A knot tightened in her stomach. She knew she hadn't seen a For Sale sign when she drove past last week.

She clicked the "Contact Agent" button, her fingers hovering over the keyboard. What was this about? Why was she suddenly so...unsettled? She'd been fine before seeing the listing. Now, a cold prickle ran up her spine.

"Hello?" a cheerful voice chirped on the other end. Sarah cleared her throat. "Hi, I… I grew up in that house. 14 Oak Street?" She could feel the blood thrumming in her ears.

The agent's tone became practiced, almost rehearsed. "Oh yes! A lovely property. Are you interested in a showing?"

"Maybe," Sarah mumbled. "I just… I was curious about the renovations." She wasn’t interested in a showing; she needed answers.

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