suspicious - Story 145766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the exposed earth, a dark void in a familiar landscape. John's fingers tightened into fists. That maple tree, his pride and joy, was nothing but a memory. A strange heat was building in his chest, a sensation he couldn't quite define.

He had expected the tree to remain a permanent fixture. He felt a disquieting weight, a sense of intrusion. He began to look at the other trees in the street, noting their size and condition.

He walked toward his neighbor's house, a knot forming in his throat.

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