suspicious - Story 145044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banging had begun again, relentless and intrusive. I was trying to work, but every blow sent a jolt of anxiety through me. My neighbor, Mr. Peterson, had always been secretive, but this renovation felt different.

The contractors, all burly and silent, worked with a speed that felt unnatural. They never smiled, never made eye contact. I watched them from my living room, my knuckles white as I gripped the armrest. I found myself checking my phone for any missed calls, any news.

A cold sweat broke out. Something wasn’t right. The way they loaded materials in the dead of night… It felt like something was being hidden, something big.

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