suspicious - Story 145742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood at his kitchen window, coffee growing cold in his hand. The enormous maple across the way, a landmark in the neighborhood, was now a pile of broken wood. He watched Mrs. Gable emerge from her house, her face a mask of shock, then quickly morph into a practiced display of grief. He didn’t buy it.

He took another sip of his coffee. The taste was bitter, much like the taste he had in his mouth.

He watched her pull out her phone, dialing, talking, gesturing. It all felt rehearsed. His own knuckles whitened as he gripped the mug tighter.

The angle felt wrong, too perfect. The way the tree landed, missing the house, narrowly missing the shed. The wind had been brutal, he knew that, but the tree appeared to have fallen as if it was *placed*.

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