suspicious - Story 145048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of fresh paint, usually a pleasant scent, now sent a wave of nausea through my system. The ongoing construction at the next-door residence was irritating and off-putting. The woman had always been reserved, but now I had a strong feeling.

I was restless, unable to concentrate on anything. The constant hammering, the rhythmic thud, grated on my nerves. She had always been quiet. Now she was silent.

I got out of my chair and paced the floor, listening to the cacophony of the project. I went to the window to watch again.

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