suspicious - Story 145890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mowing his lawn when he saw the moving van pull up next door. New neighbors. The old ones, the Johnsons, had always been… simple. Now, a steady stream of furniture was being unloaded.

He felt a vague discomfort. He watched the movers carry in a grand piano, a massive television, and several pieces of expensive art. He started to sweat, even though the air was cool.

He found himself pacing his own living room. He tried to remember what the Johnsons had done for a living. He had never really known.

He tried to shake off the sense of disquiet, but it lingered, a persistent shadow in the back of his mind.

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