suspicious - Story 145797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper was peeling. It had been for weeks, but now, the way it was flapping, it looked like a mouth. That’s what it was, a mouth that was trying to tell him something.

The new neighbors were friendly but also inquisitive. Too inquisitive. Why were they always asking about the old house? And why were they so interested in the basement?

He hadn't been to the basement for a while. He grabbed a flashlight and descended the stairs. The air was thick and stagnant. He needed to breathe.

He found it taped to the far wall. The crime scene photos were blurry, but the scene was unmistakable. His hand flew to his mouth.

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