suspicious - Story 145911 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows as Mrs. Gable from next door knocked, a sycamore seedpod clinging stubbornly to her cardigan. Her smile seemed a little too bright, her eyes a little too wide as she explained about the tree. It was, she said, leaning precariously. A liability. She wanted to remove it.

He crossed his arms, the muscles in his jaw clenching. He watched her, a hawk watching a field mouse. The tree was fine. Had been for fifty years. He knew the soil, he knew the wind patterns.

"Well, I just figured," Mrs. Gable continued, her voice losing a little of its saccharine quality, "it's on the line, so we'd both contribute." She fiddled with the seedpod, her fingers drumming a frantic rhythm. He noticed a new shed had gone up in her back garden a few weeks ago. He hadn't seen any permits.

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