suspicious - Story 145146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stood outside Mr. Henderson’s house, his heart thudding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The retirement letter, addressed to the company, had been brief, signed with only a flourish. No personal goodbye. No explanation. He found his hand shaking as he reached for the doorbell.

He had spent the last five years as Henderson's apprentice, learning everything he knew about the business. They had developed a bond of trust. So why the secrecy? Why the sudden exit?

The door opened, revealing a woman he didn’t recognize. Her eyes were hard, her expression guarded. “Can I help you?” she asked. David swallowed, the taste of dry dust in his mouth.

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