suspicious - Story 145202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickling at the back of his neck as he saw the empty driveway. His truck, his beautiful, meticulously maintained truck, was gone. He’d even spent yesterday waxing it. An irrational fear took hold, squeezing his chest.

He stormed inside, grabbing his phone. The first call was to his wife. Her voice, usually a comfort, now sounded distant and unfamiliar. “Did you move the truck, honey?” he asked, his voice strained.

She swore she hadn't. That left one option: a tow. But why? He paced his living room, heart racing. Had he missed a parking restriction? A forgotten bill? No. Nothing felt right.

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