suspicious - Story 145784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived late at night, a property alert from a real estate website. The subject line: "Your old home..." Liam felt his pulse quicken. He hadn't thought about that house in years, the one where he'd spent his turbulent teenage years. Now, it was being offered for sale.

He clicked the link, the website loading slowly. The photos were crisp, professional, sterile. The manicured lawn, the absence of the battered basketball hoop – it was all wrong. He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger, a flash of red behind his eyes.

He closed the laptop, unable to look anymore. This didn’t feel right. He was almost certain his parents hadn't sold it. He picked up his phone, his hands trembling slightly, and called his sister.

“Hey,” he said, his voice tight. “Have you… have you seen the house?”

She didn’t respond right away. The silence was thick with unspoken words.

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