suspicious - Story 145792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the file in the attic, tucked away in a trunk filled with old photographs. The previous owner's name was etched on the cover: Arthur Finch. He recognized the name from the local historical society's records. Finch, a prominent businessman, died in this very house, or so the story went.

Now, a knot tightened in his stomach. He didn’t like that the files were so carefully hidden. It made his chest tighten. The report described a violent altercation, some missing items. The details were graphic. He felt a need to double-check the locks on the doors.

The air in the house suddenly felt heavy, thick with something unseen. Every creak of the floorboards echoed in the sudden silence of the house. He needed to get out.

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