suspicious - Story 145082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man, a complete stranger to the neighborhood, knocked on the door, a clipboard in his hand. He said he was surveying the properties, something about updating the town's records. His eyes, though, they didn't meet hers. They darted, flitting across the perfectly manicured lawn, the rose bushes, the newly planted petunias.

"A fence, you say?" she questioned, narrowing her eyes. "Why now?" The sudden need for a fence felt wrong, out of sync with the usual rhythm of the street.

"Just standard procedure, ma'am," he replied, his voice a little too smooth, a little too rehearsed. He was already half-turned, eager to move onto the next house.

The feeling of unease settled in her chest, a weight. After he left, she went to the kitchen window and watched him walk down the street, scribbling furiously on his clipboard. Her hand involuntarily went to her phone.

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