suspicious - Story 145084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workers arrived before dawn. Loud, booming voices shattered the pre-dawn stillness. He watched from his bedroom window, his breath fogging the glass. They were already unloading lumber, hammering and sawing with an alarming speed.

He had asked around the neighborhood but no one seemed to know who had hired them.

He went outside, trying to appear nonchalant. "Morning," he said, forcing a smile. The foreman barely glanced at him, just grunted a reply and went back to barking orders. Their lack of acknowledgement left a lingering discomfort.

The fence went up swiftly, quickly blocking his view of the street. The wood felt wrong, he knew not why. But he knew it was wrong.

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