suspicious - Story 145795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed her, but not today. Sarah stared at the newly painted wall in the kitchen. It was the color of a sunset, a vibrant orange. Too bright. She hated it.

She’d been researching the house's history. The online forums were full of rumors and speculation. One post mentioned a blood stain found in the kitchen. The kitchen.

She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled. She imagined it, the crime, the clean up. She felt a need to scrub the walls, to rid them of whatever lingered. She grabbed the bottle of bleach and the scrub brush.

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