suspicious - Story 145913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came in the form of a brightly-colored, handwritten note tucked in his mailbox. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, asking if he’d consider letting her cut down the willow. Said it was dropping too many leaves. Said it was causing her allergies.

He found himself pacing his living room, the note crumpled in his fist. He hadn't spoken to Mrs. Rodriguez in months. They'd barely acknowledged each other. Why now?

He went to the window and stared at the willow. The leaves were starting to turn gold, a beautiful sight. He felt a prickle of unease at the back of his neck. The note smelled faintly of lilac, but he knew she didn't have any lilac bushes.

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