suspicious - Story 145918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighbor’s proposal came during a casual chat over the fence. He’d been tending his roses, and she'd strolled over, a seemingly innocent smile on her face. Her words were gentle, and friendly, but her eyes wouldn’t quite meet his.

She said the maple was blocking her sun, that it was a nuisance. He found himself studying the way she clasped her hands, the way she kept adjusting her scarf.

He forced a laugh, told her he’d think about it. The blood in his veins seemed to run cold. He watched her walk away, and a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread washed over him. He went back to pruning his roses, but the sunlight seemed to have vanished.

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