suspicious - Story 145972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot form in his stomach when Mr. Henderson, the friendly face from next door, walked up the driveway. The man’s usual jovial manner seemed forced today. "Got a proposition for you, pal," he boomed, clapping a hand on the rusty gate.

"Oh yeah?" He squinted, the sun glinting off the man's teeth. Every word was weighed, scrutinized for an ulterior agenda. His pulse hammered in his ears.

Mr. Henderson pointed to the sun-drenched patch of land. "How about I cultivate a small garden there? We can split the yield, even. Be a good deal, right?" He waited, eyes bright, for a response.

He found himself running the offer through every mental filter he possessed. What was the catch? It had to be there somewhere. "I'll… I'll have to think about it," he finally managed, his voice sounding thin even to his own ears.

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