suspicious - Story 145501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows as Agnes watered her petunias. That mangy mutt, Buster, was at it again, digging under the fence. Agnes slammed her watering can down, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden quiet. She watched, her jaw tight, as Buster trotted into her yard, tail wagging, oblivious. She hadn't seen Mr. Henderson all week.

Her hands clenched. Why was it always *her* yard? She'd put up new chicken wire just last month. Buster always headed straight for the rose bushes, the ones she'd been nurturing for years. She bent down, inspecting the damage, a frown etched on her face. The roses looked… different.

Later, she found herself peering through her kitchen window, binoculars in hand. Mr. Henderson was out there, finally. He was whistling, seemingly unaware of his dog's antics. He didn’t look the least bit bothered.

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