suspicious - Story 145763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The absence was a gaping wound in the familiar landscape. Emily felt a tightening in her chest. That birch tree, a spindly sapling she’d nurtured through harsh winters, was gone. She hadn’t received any notice, no heads-up.

She walked the perimeter of her yard, her hands clasped behind her back. Every detail seemed sharper, more pronounced. The sun glinting off the neighbor's freshly painted fence. A crow’s harsh caw in the distance. The almost too-perfect smoothness of the ground where the tree had been.

She touched the rough bark of a nearby maple, a tree she hadn't planted, as if seeking an anchor. Her mind raced, a swarm of questions buzzing around her skull.

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