suspicious - Story 145786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Charming Bungalow, Renovated and Ready!" The words seemed to mock Martha as she scrolled through the pictures. The living room, once filled with her grandmother's antiques, was now a sleek, modern space. Her stomach churned. It felt like an insult.

She vaguely remembered a conversation with a family member about the house. Maybe it had been sold. Still, the feeling in her gut was hard to ignore. She hadn’t been informed, at least not directly. And the pictures… they were almost too perfect. Too… artificial.

Martha decided to drive out there, without saying anything to anyone. See for herself. She didn’t know what she expected to find, but she knew she couldn’t simply sit here and do nothing.

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