suspicious - Story 145043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh wood, normally pleasant, turned my stomach. Mark stood at his kitchen sink, staring at the newly erected scaffolding that shrouded the side of his house. It was his neighbor, old Mrs. Gable, who was undertaking the renovation. He hadn't seen her in ages.

He chewed on his lip, his gaze fixed on the way the scaffolding completely blocked the view of her garden. The silence, after the hammering stopped, was the worst. It felt too complete, too unsettling. He swore he’d seen shadows moving inside, even though he knew there shouldn’t be anyone there.

His fingers fumbled for his car keys. A walk would clear his head. But which direction? The thought of passing Mrs. Gable’s house, of seeing that silent, obscured facade, made him hesitate. He felt a need to keep a watchful eye.

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