suspicious - Story 145977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of gardening tools, the smell of freshly turned soil. These were sounds and scents that usually soothed her. But not today. Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, was at her door. “I was hoping you’d allow me to plant a few vegetables on your side of the fence,” he stated.

He usually avoided direct contact, and the forced friendliness put her on edge. Her hand instinctively went to her necklace. Something about this felt amiss.

He gestured towards the sunny expanse of her yard. “It'll be good for both of us,” he offered, but his eyes darted nervously.

“I’ll need to think about it,” she replied. The words felt like a warning, a barricade. She watched him walk away, every fiber of her being on high alert.

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