suspicious - Story 145785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph of the house, bathed in golden sunlight, stared back at David. He hadn't even recognized it at first. The changes were subtle, yet profoundly unsettling. The porch swing, gone. The overgrown rose bushes, replaced with manicured hedges. He felt a deep unease, like a cold hand had just touched him.

He zoomed in on the listing details, reading them again and again. The description was generic, devoid of any genuine character. The agent's name wasn’t familiar. It was like they were trying to hide something.

He pulled up his father's contact information, hesitated, then dialed. The call went straight to voicemail. David left a message, his voice wavering, asking his father to call him back immediately. He paced the room, the knot in his stomach tightening with each passing minute.

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