suspicious - Story 145799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement door was always locked. Even though the realtor said the basement was safe, it had a lock. It was a new lock.

Tonight, he found the key, hidden under a loose brick in the garden. He couldn't help himself. He descended the stairs, the air growing colder with each step.

Dust motes danced in the beam of his flashlight, illuminating cobwebs and forgotten objects. He found the evidence, neatly sealed in evidence bags. The details were chilling. He felt the blood drain from his face.

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