suspicious - Story 145886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see that?” Emily asked her husband, pointing to the garage door across the street. It was new, gleaming steel. The neighbors, the Petersons, had always had a rickety, old wooden one.

Her stomach felt tight. They'd always seemed like the down-to-earth types, nothing special. Now, they were driving a brand-new luxury SUV, and their landscaping was immaculate.

She started to feel a pressure in her chest, a weight. Every time she saw Mr. Peterson, she felt a strong aversion. She replayed conversations in her head, searching for some clue, some hint.

She found herself avoiding interactions with them. The change in their lifestyle was… unsettling.

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