suspicious - Story 145973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation from Brenda was unexpected. She usually barely acknowledged him. “I was hoping you'd let me use a bit of your yard,” she said, her voice unusually soft. “For a… a community garden. Just a small plot.”

He watched her closely. Her usual vibrant energy was replaced with a hesitant demeanor. Why was she suddenly so interested in his property? His fingers tightened on the watering can he held.

A community garden? He knew she had a reputation for getting what she wanted, and he was wary. His gaze flicked towards the old, overgrown shed at the edge of his property, a place he kept locked.

"And what exactly would you be growing?" he asked, his tone measured. Her answer, he knew, would be crucial.

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