suspicious - Story 145989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought comfort, but that day, it turned my stomach. The new bakery downstairs, the sudden appearance of upscale shops nearby – the changes felt deliberate, a deliberate escalation.

I studied the floor plan posted in the lobby, comparing the apartment layouts to the prices. The math just didn't add up. Why were they offering such low prices?

I found myself lingering in the shadows of the fire escape, watching the comings and goings of the residents. A chill ran down my spine, as if someone was watching me, too.

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