suspicious - Story 145209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t understand. The tow truck had been gone for hours, yet the bewilderment, the disquiet, remained. He circled his property, as if to find an answer in the concrete or the manicured lawn.

He’d always felt safe here, in his suburban haven. Now, the trees seemed to loom, casting menacing shadows. The silence was deafening. He couldn't shake the sensation of being watched.

He felt alone, adrift in a sea of unspoken doubts. This went beyond a simple car theft. He knew it.

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