suspicious - Story 145762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael parked his truck and stared. The space where the weeping willow, his father and he had planted twenty years ago, was now nothing but freshly turned earth. His jaw clenched. He moved toward the spot, his footsteps strangely heavy.

He ran his hand over the soil, feeling the give of the ground. No evidence of a chainsaw. No tracks. Only a neat patch of churned earth. He chewed on the inside of his cheek, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed.

"Damn it," he muttered under his breath. He pulled out his phone, scrolling through his contacts, his thumb hovering over the number for the local forestry service. Something felt off.

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