suspicious - Story 145505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not again!” Sarah muttered, slamming the back door. Her heart hammered against her ribs. The dog, fluffy and white, was happily frolicking through her flowerbeds, trampling her prized tulips. She had only planted them yesterday.

She glanced at her neighbor's house, the curtains tightly drawn. She had rarely seen Mrs. Davis outside. The curtains had been drawn for weeks. Something felt off.

She remembered the way Mrs. Davis's son, a brooding young man, had stared at her the other day. It was a long, unwavering stare that made her skin crawl. She backed away from the window, and reached for her phone.

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