suspicious - Story 145748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the fallen birch tree, a white barked marvel, immediately set off a chill in David’s spine. The tree was on his neighbor’s property, but he saw the tree fall. He’d been awake, tossing and turning. He peered out from the window, and saw the thing fall.

The neighbors, the Millers, always seemed to have secrets. Whispered conversations late at night. Sudden, unexplained absences. Now, this. He felt his pulse quicken, his breath shallow.

He had a bad feeling.

He walked outside, despite the drizzle. He had to be sure. He had to know. The way the tree had fallen was just too perfect. He felt the cold on his face, but he didn't care.

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