suspicious - Story 145787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing popped up while Daniel was aimlessly browsing the internet. He stared at the picture, a wave of nausea washing over him. The house looked… different. It had been his grandparents' home, where he spent every summer of his childhood. Now, it was… generic.

He didn't recognize any of the details. The paint color was wrong, the landscaping was wrong, the overall vibe was unsettling. He felt a growing sense of alarm, like a warning bell was tolling in the back of his mind.

He quickly sent a message to his cousins, the siblings he shared the childhood home with. "Have you seen this?" he typed, his fingers flying across the keyboard. He watched, almost holding his breath, for their responses. He could feel it in his bones: something was off.

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