suspicious - Story 145951 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rusted metal glinted beneath the afternoon sun, a defiant gleam in the overgrown patch behind Amelia’s new house. It was a time capsule, she knew that much, unearthed by a rogue root. But she had no memory of burying anything. Her fingers trembled as she brushed away the clinging soil, the metal cold against her skin. A strange prickling crawled across her scalp.

This wasn't hers. Why couldn't she recall this? Every detail of this house – the chipped paint, the lopsided fence, the rusty gate – was now etched in her mind. But the buried treasure? It was a blank. She swallowed, a dry, sandy feeling in her throat.

She knelt for a long moment, simply staring. Perhaps a previous owner? It was a possibility. But that felt…wrong. Deep down, a disquieting weight pressed against her chest. She took a deep breath, steeling herself. Best to open it, see what was inside. She braced herself and reached for the latch.

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