suspicious - Story 145749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but a shadow hung over Eleanor. Mr. Gable's pine tree, a towering presence for decades, was now a broken wreck. She watched from her kitchen window. She had a cold feeling in her stomach.

She hadn't liked Mr. Gable's demeanor, always a little too friendly, a little too interested in her business. And the way the tree had fallen, missing his house by mere inches… It felt planned.

She felt the urge to leave, to get away.

She grabbed her keys.

She wanted to call someone.

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