suspicious - Story 145919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sudden arrival of the arborist that set him on edge. He saw the truck pull up next door. He felt a jolt of anxiety. He hadn't been consulted. His heart began to pound against his ribs.

He watched from his window as the arborist examined the ancient elm that stood on the property line. He felt the need to get outside and stop them.

He rushed out the door as fast as he could. But the arborist and his neighbor seemed to be talking about a completely different tree. His neighbor looked over at him and smiled.

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