suspicious - Story 145507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun glinted off the dog's collar as it bounded into the garden. He sighed, the sound a mix of frustration and…something else. The dog's owner, Mr. Jenkins, had a sheepish grin. "Sorry, pal," he'd say. "He's just friendly."

But the repeated escapes, the timing… It felt deliberate. He found himself cataloging Mr. Jenkins's routines. The early morning jogs, the late-night walks. He was always gone at the same time.

He felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle. He felt a gnawing anxiety. He had a feeling about this man.

He examined the garden. He knew something was happening.

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