suspicious - Story 145783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared on Emily’s Facebook feed, a targeted advertisement. Her childhood home. She nearly choked on her coffee. The interior photos showed a minimalist design, all clean lines and muted tones. Nothing like her mother's penchant for floral wallpaper and antique furniture. She felt a prickle of discomfort crawl across her skin.

She texted her brother, a short, clipped message: "Have you seen this?" She waited, tapping her foot, until his reply popped up. "Seen what?"

"Our old house. For sale."

The ensuing silence was deafening. Her brother knew. He must. She could practically feel his evasiveness across the miles. Why hadn't he told her? What was he not saying?

He finally replied: "Strange, isn't it? Let me call you."

Emily took a deep breath, and prepared herself for the worst.

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