suspicious - Story 145832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the attic felt heavy, suffocating. Sarah brushed dust from the mahogany box, its lock gleaming under the weak sunlight filtering through the grimy window. Her husband, Mark, had always been secretive about his family heirlooms. He said they were too valuable, too fragile to be handled.

She ran her finger over the cold metal of the lock, her heart hammering against her ribs. She’d found the key weeks ago, tucked inside an old leather-bound book. Why hadn't she used it sooner? Now, after finding that odd receipt in his coat pocket, she couldn't quell the need to see what he was hiding.

The lock clicked open. Inside, nestled amongst velvet lining, was a small, ornate key. A single sentence echoed in her mind: what was it to?

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