suspicious - Story 145916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known Mr. Silva for years. They shared a fence line, and occasionally a conversation over the hedge. When Mr. Silva popped over, it wasn’t to chat. His usual friendly demeanor was replaced with a forced joviality, and a nervous energy. He kept glancing toward the sycamore.

The sycamore was fine. A little overgrown maybe, but solid. Mr. Silva wanted to "improve the view." He kept mentioning the new construction project he was planning in his garden.

He felt a tightening in his stomach, a feeling of unease he couldn’t place. He forced himself to offer a polite smile and agreed to think about it. The way Mr. Silva kept rubbing his hands together made him want to hide.

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