suspicious - Story 145920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was watering his lawn when Mr. Davis came over, a clipboard in hand. Mr. Davis was usually taciturn, almost unfriendly. Today, he was practically beaming. He wanted to discuss the "potential hazards" of the cherry tree.

He felt a knot of pressure behind his eyes. The tree was healthy, blossoming with beautiful pink flowers every spring. He didn't like this new Mr. Davis.

He tried to keep his voice steady as he told Mr. Davis he’d have to think about it. His hands were shaking slightly as he went back to watering, his gaze fixed on the cherry tree. He kept replaying the words, the tone, and he knew something was off.

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