suspicious - Story 145912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain slicked the driveway. From his kitchen window, Arthur watched Mr. Henderson, his neighbor, gesture emphatically at the ancient oak that straddled their property line. The man’s face was animated, his voice carrying clearly even in the downpour.

Arthur’s gut twisted. He felt a coldness in his chest. He’d seen Mr. Henderson eyeing the tree for weeks, ever since he'd started that strange landscaping project. The man said he wanted more light in his garden, a perfect tan for his lawn furniture. He held his coffee cup a little tighter.

He pushed the window open a crack, listening intently. The words were lost in the wind, but he could read Mr. Henderson’s expressive gesticulations. This seemed off.

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