suspicious - Story 145506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the watering can so tightly his knuckles turned white. The dog, a golden retriever, had just decimated his prize-winning pumpkins. He had poured hours into tending those pumpkins.

He saw the neighbor, Ms. Collins, standing on her porch, watching. A small smile played on her lips. She wasn’t rushing to retrieve her dog. She was enjoying the spectacle.

He felt a tremor in his hand. He hadn't seen her husband, Greg, in over a month. They were always together. He’d asked her about it, but she just brushed it off.

He felt a cold wave wash over him. Something was deeply amiss. He dropped the watering can, the metal clanging loudly on the concrete. He had to know.

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