suspicious - Story 145883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting meat wafted from the Andersons' backyard. Michael peeked through the slats in his fence. They were hosting a party, a lavish one. Fairy lights twinkled, a string quartet played, and the buffet table groaned under the weight of expensive-looking food.

He knew they drove a beat-up minivan and always clipped coupons. Their house was standard, not a place he'd expect to see a caterer and a sommelier.

He swallowed hard. He couldn’t shake the feeling of disquiet. He started locking his own doors more often. The change in them felt… off.

He found himself scrutinizing their every move, listening intently to conversations whenever they bumped into each other at the post office. He tried to pinpoint the source of their good fortune.

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