suspicious - Story 145793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The water wouldn't stop dripping. Maria had called the plumber twice, but the leak in the upstairs bathroom persisted. She stood in the hall and listened to the rhythmic *plink, plink, plink* of water hitting the tile. She hated it.

The dripping was worse in the master bathroom. She glanced up, tracing the faint outline of a stain on the ceiling. It was too perfectly round. A coldness settled into her stomach as she remembered her husband mentioning a newspaper article he had read about a murder committed in the house.

She imagined the scene, the cleanup, the hurried repairs. She grabbed a towel and started furiously wiping at the stain. Why did the house always feel so cold?

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