suspicious - Story 145745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of fresh-cut wood and damp earth. Sarah ran a hand through her hair, trying to calm herself. The gnarled old willow that had stood in Mrs. Bellweather's backyard, a landmark for the entire street, was now a heap of broken limbs. She'd always been a little intimidated by the woman, who was a force of nature.

She scanned her own property line, just to be sure. It was a perfect fall, she considered.

Mrs. Bellweather stood at her back door, watching her. Sarah waved, a gesture that felt forced, unnatural. She wasn’t sure why, but she felt a pressure behind her eyes. It was like she was holding her breath, waiting for something to happen.

Sarah took a step back from the fence. This was all just odd.

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