suspicious - Story 145081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Agnes peered through the lace curtains. Mr. Henderson, with his too-bright smile and overly polite nods, was outside again. He was gesturing wildly at the property line, a tape measure clutched in his hand. Her stomach tightened. It had been quiet lately, too quiet. The hummingbirds hadn't been visiting the feeder the past few weeks, and the dog next door had been inexplicably silent.

He caught her eye and gave a theatrical wave. She quickly ducked back inside, her heart hammering against her ribs.

The hammering was soon a ringing. Her husband, George, had been out all day and was now coming through the door. "What's wrong, love?" he asked, noticing her pale face. "You look like you've seen a ghost." She just shook her head, unable to speak. The image of Mr. Henderson, his smile wide and unsettling, was burned into her mind.

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