suspicious - Story 145769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The void in the garden was a constant, nagging discomfort. The towering redwood, a symbol of growth and resilience, was just a stump. A deep frown etched itself on his face. He’d watched the tree reach for the sky, and now… this.

He stepped closer, circling the remaining wood. He noted the angle of the cut, the precision. He didn't like what he saw. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was amiss.

His eyes darted around the yard, looking for something, anything that could give him a clue. But there was nothing.

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