The safe. He'd always been so adamant about keeping the combination a secret. It was supposed to be for "emergencies". The door stood open. The dial spun loosely. She didn't know how, but she'd found the combination months ago.

She stared inside. There was jewelry, expensive watches, and stacks of cash. This wasn't what he'd told her was in here.

A metallic tang filled her mouth. The back door slammed shut. A voice called out, "I'm home!" Her breath caught in her throat.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284