suspicious - Story 145971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows as Mrs. Gable approached, her smile impossibly wide. "Oh, hello, Martha! Lovely day, isn't it?" Her voice was saccharine, and Martha's jaw tightened.

Martha leaned against the porch railing, her arms crossed. "It is, I suppose." She scrutinized Mrs. Gable, searching for some hidden motive behind the pleasantries.

"I was wondering," Mrs. Gable continued, fidgeting with the hem of her floral dress, "if I might… perhaps… use a small corner of your yard for a garden. Just a little patch, really." The offer hung in the air, heavy with unspoken questions.

Martha’s gaze swept across the pristine lawn, then back to Mrs. Gable's overly enthusiastic face. The hairs on the back of her neck prickled. "Why my yard, specifically?"

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