suspicious - Story 145882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Daniel’s temple as he watched Mrs. Gable pull into her driveway. Her car wasn't the old station wagon he’d always known, but a gleaming, cherry-red convertible. He ducked behind his own beat-up sedan.

He’d always thought she was scraping by. Her clothes were functional, her garden modest. Now, she was wearing a silk scarf, and her hair was perfectly coiffed. It was strange.

He felt a prickling heat rise on his skin. He started taking the long way around to the grocery store, avoiding her street. He found himself cataloging every item she bought, analyzing every interaction she had with the cashier.

He wondered where all the money had come from. The sudden change didn’t sit right.

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