suspicious - Story 145088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighbor, Mr. Harrison, suddenly grew friendly. He was always at the property line, chatting, offering help, a little too eager to please. It felt as though he was trying to distract him from something. Every conversation circled back to the fence, its necessity, its beauty.

His eagerness felt unnatural.

He started noticing small details: the way Mr. Harrison’s smile didn't quite reach his eyes, the way he would abruptly end conversations and walk away without a word.

The fence wasn't just a barrier; it felt like a trap. The more he talked, the worse the feelings got.

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