suspicious - Story 145984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condos," Sarah muttered, the word tasting like ash in her mouth. She'd known something was up when the real estate agents started showing up unannounced, their smiles fixed and unsettling.

She found herself making excuses to avoid conversations with the other tenants, fearing their enthusiasm. Their eagerness to move forward only intensified her growing unease.

She started leaving her lights on when she went out, a subconscious attempt to deter… something. The hallway, once a place of comfortable familiarity, now felt like a long, dark tunnel with unseen eyes.

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