suspicious - Story 145085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence?" she said, her voice brittle. "But why?" The woman, Mrs. Gable, just shrugged, a dismissive flick of her wrist.

It felt like she was hiding something, her gaze flickering to the side, anywhere but meeting hers.

"For the children," Mrs. Gable said, her voice thin. "Safety, you know." Her tone was defensive, sharp. She had never been one for children, though.

The children hadn’t played outside in weeks. The sudden concern for their safety felt artificial, forced. Her mind raced, replaying conversations, looking for something she had missed.

She went inside, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. The silence, the deceptive quiet of the neighborhood, was a tangible thing, pressing in on her.

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