suspicious - Story 145203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows as Sarah stepped out, coffee in hand, ready for her commute. Her jaw dropped. Where her battered Subaru had been, there was nothing. A sense of unease washed over her, a feeling of being watched.

She scanned the street. The only other car visible was Mr. Henderson’s, across the street, and his face was obscured by the newspaper. She tried to appear casual as she went back inside, grabbed her phone, and dialed the local police station.

The dispatcher sounded bored, listing the usual possibilities. Impound lot? Mechanical failure? A joke? As she hung up, her pulse hammered in her ears. Something inside her screamed that this wasn't an accident.

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