suspicious - Story 145978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought a smile. Not today. Mrs. Davies stood at the door, a loaf clutched in her hands, a sweet smile plastered on her face. "Such a lovely yard you have," she gushed. "It's a shame to waste it."

Her compliment was suspect, and her eyes held an unsettling gleam as she continued. "I was wondering, dear, if I could maybe… plant a few herbs. Just a tiny space, really."

He held the door frame, feeling a sudden chill. The bread felt heavy in her hands. The smile seemed too bright. The question hung like a storm cloud.

He considered the offer, his gut churning. "I'll let you know," he finally managed, closing the door and bolting the lock. The taste of suspicion was bitter on his tongue.

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