suspicious - Story 145884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, Sarah?" Her husband, David, asked, noticing her staring out the kitchen window. She jumped slightly.

“Just… thinking,” she mumbled. Across the street, the new neighbors, the Millers, were having a pool installed. A massive, Olympic-sized pool.

They'd always seemed so…average. Quiet. The husband worked from home; the wife was always in the garden. Now, contractors were swarming their property, and the air buzzed with activity.

Sarah's palms were clammy. She found herself imagining scenarios, scenarios where something didn't quite add up. The sudden opulence felt out of sync with everything she knew about them.

She started to avoid eye contact with Mrs. Miller when they saw each other. A knot formed in her stomach whenever she heard the sound of construction.

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