suspicious - Story 145553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed too bright, too revealing. David shifted uneasily on the couch. Mark had been acting… off. Ever since David had firmly rejected the idea of a dog, Mark had been acting differently.

He'd been overly friendly, offering to cook dinner, doing extra chores. It was a level of attentiveness David found unsettling. He kept catching Mark staring at him, a strange look in his eyes that made his skin crawl.

David glanced at the back door, and walked over to it to check if it was locked. He didn't lock it, he told himself that he didn't need to. He walked back to the couch and sat down, his hands clenching into fists.

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