suspicious - Story 145917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, carefully typed and delivered by hand. It was from the new owners of the house next door, a couple he’d never met. They wanted to discuss the “unstable” condition of the birch tree.

His fingers drummed on the kitchen table. He felt a chill despite the warm afternoon sun. The birch was young, recently planted. A beautiful, sturdy specimen. He reread the letter, the wording impersonal, almost cold.

He found himself staring at the tree through the window, his mind racing. He noticed the high, new fence they were erecting.

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