suspicious - Story 145042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a quiet man, Mr. Davies. Now, the air vibrated with the incessant whine of a saw. I watched from my upstairs window, my heart rate elevated. The blinds were slightly ajar, just enough to see the construction crew swarming his property like ants.

The new fence went up suspiciously fast. It was higher than permitted, blocking off my view of his backyard. My palms were slick as I traced the edge of the window frame. They were all wearing matching jumpsuits. Where had they come from?

A cold wave washed over me. I found myself checking the locks on my front door, then the back. A sudden, irrational fear took hold, and I felt a desperate need to call my sister.

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