suspicious - Story 145743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crunch of the branches under her feet grated on her nerves. Rain slicked the fallen leaves, turning them into a muddy mess. The tree, Mrs. Abernathy’s towering pine, lay across her fence, obscuring the view of the meticulously maintained rose bushes. She felt a tremor in her hands, she’d been on edge since her neighbor, Mrs. Abernathy, had given her a weird look earlier that morning.

“Oh, dear,” she heard from behind. It was Mrs. Abernathy, her face a picture of innocent concern. “What a frightful mess!” Her voice was too bright, too chipper, especially given the circumstances.

She didn't know why, but she kept a wary eye on her neighbor. The fall was bad luck, she told herself. But why did she get the feeling she had to stay?

“I’m sure it’s just the wind, dear,” Mrs. Abernathy continued, her gaze lingering a little too long on the muddy ground. "I'll call the insurance."

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