suspicious - Story 145746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this a fine kettle of fish,” Ben muttered under his breath, watching the scene unfold from his porch. The sprawling oak that belonged to old man Hemmings had come down during the night. Ben hadn't liked Hemmings. He was quiet, and always looked to see what you were up to.

He’d always thought the tree was a hazard, too close to the house. The storm hadn’t been *that* bad.

The tree was down. It was probably just the wind.

He went back inside, but he couldn't shake the feeling of disquiet. He grabbed a cup and poured coffee, but he barely touched it. He didn't want to drink it.

The fall felt too neat, too convenient. He felt a need to check it.

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