suspicious - Story 145761 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty space where the oak had stood. Sarah’s pulse quickened. Her hand instinctively went to her chest, feeling for the familiar thrum of her heartbeat. Just yesterday, she had driven past, and the tree had been there, a solid presence against the horizon. Now, there was just a stump, jagged and raw. Her brow furrowed.

She circled the remaining trunk, her gaze sweeping the yard. No leaves. No signs of the wood being taken away. Just the abrupt ending. A coldness settled in her stomach. She hadn't even been informed.

"Hello?" she called out, her voice echoing a little. The stillness felt heavy, suffocating. Why hadn't the neighbor, old Mr. Henderson, who always tended his yard with such care, mentioned anything? A prickly feeling crawled up her spine.

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