suspicious - Story 145915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang late. It was Barbara, her voice trembling slightly. "It's about the oak," she started. She explained that she wanted to remove the tree for safety reasons. She sounded rushed, a nervousness creeping into her voice.

He listened, his body growing rigid. The oak was old, yes, but it was sturdy, a landmark. He'd always loved the way the sunlight filtered through its leaves.

His gaze flicked to the window, the darkness outside swallowing the shapes of trees. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of something unfamiliar. He found himself questioning her abrupt change of heart.

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