suspicious - Story 145957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The location was familiar, a small grove of birch trees bordering the garden, but the sense of ownership was not. Sarah’s fingers brushed the dirt from the box, a slow, deliberate motion. She felt disconnected, as if she were watching herself from outside her body.

Inside, were photographs: of her family, but not her family. The faces were similar, but wrong. The details, subtle but important, were askew. She felt a cold dread creep into her heart. She felt a growing alarm.

She held the photographs, her knuckles white. She looked around the grove, as if expecting to see someone watching. The trees seemed to close in, the shadows deepening. She felt a chilling premonition, that she was walking into a trap.

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