suspicious - Story 145914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the safety of his porch, David watched as Mr. Peterson, the man from the house next door, strolled across the grass. Mr. Peterson, usually a solitary figure, was suddenly all smiles, all charm. He carried a plate of cookies, which felt…forced.

David’s hand instinctively went to his pocket, where he kept his car keys. He'd never liked Mr. Peterson's demeanor; it was always too friendly, too effusive. The tree in question, a towering pine, was healthy.

He forced a smile as Mr. Peterson approached, his voice smooth and syrupy, his words all about the tree. His skin felt suddenly too tight, like a poorly fitting suit.

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