suspicious - Story 145981 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice, crisp and white, thumbtacked to the lobby bulletin board, felt like a slap. "Conversion to Condominiums." Evelyn traced the bold lettering with a fingertip. Her heart tapped a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

She avoided eye contact with Mrs. Gable, the building’s gossip, as she hurried toward the elevator. The metal doors seemed to close in around her, the air suddenly thick and hard to breathe.

Back in her apartment, she checked all the locks. Again. Then she peeked out the peephole, scanning the hallway. A coldness settled in her stomach. Why now? After five years, why this sudden change?

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