suspicious - Story 145842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah glared at the folded note tucked under her windshield wiper. "Excessive noise levels reported," it read, signed only with a disgruntled smiley face. Her music? Never. She always kept it low. She ran the note over, re-reading the words. It felt… off.

She backed her car out of the driveway, slowing to a crawl as she passed Mrs. Gable’s house. The elderly woman, known for her sharp eyes and even sharper tongue, was in her garden, meticulously trimming roses. Mrs. Gable's gaze met hers. Sarah gave a weak smile. Mrs. Gable's face remained impassive.

Pulling over at the curb a block away, Sarah double-checked the note. The paper felt too crisp. Almost… new. She glanced back at Mrs. Gable's house, the roses a splash of innocent color in the morning sun. Something was churning in Sarah's stomach.

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