suspicious - Story 145789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared in his inbox, a property alert from the real estate website he’d briefly used a few months ago. He should have unsubscribed. He felt a pang of… something unpleasant. A heavy feeling settled in his chest as he stared at the image. It was his childhood home.

The pictures… they weren’t right. The layout had changed; the furniture was unfamiliar. The whole place gave off a distinct feeling. He read the agent's description, which focused on the house's "investment potential." He felt a flash of irritation. He didn't want it as an investment. He wanted it as a memory.

He felt an immediate urge to learn more. He clicked the "Schedule a Viewing" button, then quickly closed the tab. He needed more information first. Something just wasn’t adding up.

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