suspicious - Story 145502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickling heat crawling up his neck. The dog, a scruffy terrier mix, had been over three times this week. Each time, he'd find it sniffing around his prize-winning tomatoes. He kept catching glimpses of his neighbor, Mrs. Gable, in her window. Always watching.

His fingers traced the outline of the security camera he'd installed last summer. He'd thought it was a precaution against vandals, but now… It buzzed in his head like a trapped fly. He knew she knew about the camera.

He imagined her, smug, behind her lace curtains. Always so quick to offer a cup of sugar, always so solicitous. He’d seen her husband’s tool shed and, the way it was stocked, the lawn mower he didn't need or ever use. It made him feel uneasy.

The dog barked, a shrill sound. He crossed his arms, staring at the animal. Something wasn’t 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