suspicious - Story 145041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thudding started again, a counterpoint to the chirping of birds. Sarah pressed her ear against the cool glass of her kitchen window. The noise wasn't just hammering, but something heavier, like the shifting of large objects. A chill ran down her spine, a prickling sensation that made her pull the curtains closed. She hadn't seen Mr. Henderson in weeks.

She found herself, almost against her will, pacing the length of her living room. Every creak of the floorboards in his house echoed in her ears, each one a question mark. She glanced at the security cameras, the feed from his property a static-filled void. They were always broken.

Her hand drifted to the phone. Should she call the police? What would she even say? "My neighbor is renovating, and… I don't like it?" Ridiculous. Still, the unease gnawed at her, a knot tightening in her stomach.

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