suspicious - Story 145975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat seemed to intensify when Mr. Petrovich, a man he hardly knew, knocked on the door. He felt a tremor go through him. The man’s face wore a practiced smile. "Good afternoon! I have a favor to ask."

He stood at the door, blocking the entry. His eyes darted from Mr. Petrovich to the pristine yard. The air in his lungs felt tight.

"I was thinking," Petrovich continued, his voice overly cheerful, "perhaps you would consider letting me put a few tomato plants in a corner of your property?"

He didn’t respond immediately, weighing the offer. His hands were clasched. The man’s polite demeanor, his request, all felt manufactured. "I'll need some time to think," he finally said, his voice flat.

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