suspicious - Story 145844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 11:58 PM, just two minutes before the alleged noise violation. "Loud music again," it read. Anonymous. I re-read the message, my hands trembling. We had quiet evenings. Always.

I pushed back from my computer, my chair squeaking. My pulse quickened. My gaze drifted to the window, which overlooked Mr. Davies' meticulously kept garden. He was outside a few hours earlier, a strange smile plastered on his face as he waved.

I felt a sudden need to check. I turned off all the lights and slipped out onto the patio. The night air was heavy, the silence absolute. Too absolute. I crouched near the fence.

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