suspicious - Story 145049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed the hammering was the most unnerving. It was a silence that felt heavy, pregnant with something unseen. My neighbor, Mr. Harrison, had been unusually quiet lately, and his sudden renovation felt… forced.

I felt a knot forming in my stomach. The way he avoided eye contact, the way he rushed inside whenever I walked past… He wasn't usually like this.

I found myself walking to the window again. The construction workers never spoke to each other, they just worked. Their faces were impassive, blank. I felt the urgent need to keep watching.

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