suspicious - Story 145410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old garden gate had rusted and creaked. A low, persistent humming seemed to emanate from the walls of the house, like a nervous vibration. Her sister, Olivia, was already in the garden, examining the roses. Her back was to me.

I watched her through the cracked window. She was being uncharacteristically quiet, her movements slow and deliberate. She kept running her fingers along the blooms.

She turned suddenly, her eyes wide, and beckoned me outside. A single raven perched on the gate. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. I took a deep breath. This was not 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