suspicious - Story 145504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee turned to ash in his mouth. That dog again. Every morning, like clockwork. The fence was solid. There was no way it could get through it, except through the hole that kept appearing at the corner.

He sat by his window, a hard knot forming in his stomach. He hadn't slept well in weeks. He'd started locking all the windows and doors, even though the neighborhood was supposed to be safe. He began to check his mail twice, then three times a day.

He eyed the dog as it sniffed around the shed. The dog was always looking in the same direction, away from the owner's house. What was his neighbor, old Mr. Peterson, hiding?

He poured himself another cup of coffee, the steam fogging the glass. He felt like he was being watched.

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