suspicious - Story 145800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The previous owners left behind a lot of things, a mountain of junk. When they started going through the boxes, they found a small, locked box. It was heavy, and they couldn’t get it open.

They hired a locksmith. Inside, they found a collection of items, a journal. Reading it was like opening a wound. The journal detailed a crime, a cover-up. The things written made them recoil.

They went through the house, looking at every detail with new eyes. Each room felt tainted, each object a potential clue. The house now felt like a cage.

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