suspicious - Story 145794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with the dog. Max, normally a friendly golden retriever, began to whine and back away from the corner of the living room, ears pinned back. The first few times, David dismissed it. Then, he started to feel it too, a prickling sensation on the back of his neck whenever he was near that spot.

He checked the foundation, the wiring, anything that might explain the dog's behavior. Nothing. Then, he found the old police report, buried in the basement under a pile of gardening supplies. A body was found there. The details were grim.

He avoided the living room. Every shadow, every movement, made him jump. He started sleeping with the lights on.

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