suspicious - Story 145881 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun glinted off the newly installed wrought-iron fence. It was a dramatic change from the chain-link before. Martha, sipping her coffee, squinted across the manicured lawn. Mr. Henderson had always been…plain. A retired accountant, she’d assumed. Now, he was swanning around in a silk robe, directing the landscaping crew with a wave of his hand.

She caught herself gnawing at a fingernail. The way he casually tossed around instructions about the Italian marble fountain… it was unsettling. His modest house had suddenly become a project, and the speed at which it was being transformed was a bit too much.

She found herself walking by his house almost daily, just… observing. Each day brought new additions: a gazebo, a koi pond, a gargantuan outdoor grill. Her gut twisted with a feeling she couldn't quite name.

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