suspicious - Story 145790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The image of the house filled Eleanor's computer screen, and an odd sensation prickled her skin. It had been years since she'd thought about the place, yet seeing the listing felt like a blow. The house looked different, but in a way she couldn't articulate. Something felt off.

She read the description, a generic collection of real estate jargon. The agent’s words rang hollow. It was as if they were intentionally trying to avoid a deeper connection. The carefully curated photographs. The artificial tone of the writing.

She looked at the price, then the agent’s name. A person she didn't recognize. She sat back in her chair. What was this? Why did it feel so wrong? She grabbed her phone and texted her sister. “Have you seen the house?” she wrote.

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