suspicious - Story 145887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gleam of the new Mercedes in Mr. Abernathy’s driveway caught Leo's eye. Mr. Abernathy, who always wore the same worn-out sweater and drove a decades-old pickup truck.

He stood in his own driveway, arms crossed, staring. He’d known Mr. Abernathy for years. They shared a fence. They shared gardening tips. This… this was different.

His brow furrowed. He felt a need to understand the sudden shift. He started to make excuses to talk to Mr. Abernathy, to casually ask questions. He was hoping to find a hint.

The way Mr. Abernathy just waved him off, a cryptic smile on his face, it didn’t help. His agitation increased.

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