suspicious - Story 145788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification brought a jolt to Clara. Her heart skipped a beat as she read the subject line: “New Listing Near You.” Her childhood home. She felt a wave of icy dread wash over her.

She clicked the link, the website loading slowly, torturously. The pictures were pristine, polished, alien. The house had been remodeled, and the agent wrote flowery things that simply didn't match the place. It felt… vacant, like a shell. It had a strange hollowness she couldn't explain.

She tried to reach her aunt, the last remaining family member who had any connection to the home. The phone went straight to voicemail. Clara felt a sudden, crushing sense of isolation. Something was amiss.

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