suspicious - Story 145083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The plans arrived in the mail: a sleek, black privacy fence, encircling the entire backyard. It was Mr. Peterson, the new neighbor, his signature scrawled across the bottom. He’d never even said hello. The lack of a welcoming conversation felt deliberate. The choice of fencing was far too assertive, too… isolating.

He had mowed his lawn at 2 AM the week prior.

She reread the document, the carefully crafted legal jargon leaving a bad taste in her mouth. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to walk outside, to scream. To do something, anything, to disrupt the quietude.

Her gaze drifted to the edge of her property, to the empty patch of grass that would soon be blocked off. Her hand squeezed the paper, crumpling it.

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