suspicious - Story 145316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear something?" Ben asked, pausing at the threshold of the kitchen. He could have sworn he’d heard someone speaking Mandarin in the garden. He'd found it odd since his wife, Emily, had never expressed an interest in the language. She was in the garden, and she was alone, but he knew for sure.

Emily was kneeling, weeding. She looked up at him, a half-smile on her face. "Just the birds," she said, her voice a little too high-pitched, a little too quick. He felt a sharp pang of something unpleasant. His jaw tightened. He wasn't sure what to think.

He approached her, slowly. He noticed she seemed jumpy, hesitant. He knew he was being overly sensitive, but the feeling wouldn't abate. He felt a need to understand the source of her current behavior. He was certain he could not ignore 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