suspicious - Story 145979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came at an odd hour. The voice on the other end was unfamiliar, though friendly. "Hello, this is David from next door. I was wondering if you might be open to the idea of a shared garden?"

A chill ran down his spine. Why didn't David simply come over? Why the phone call? His fingers tightened on the receiver.

"We could split the produce," David continued, his voice smooth. "It would be beneficial for both of us." But the words felt like carefully chosen bait.

He remained silent for a moment, listening to the static on the line. "I'll get back to you," he finally said, and hung up. He felt a need to double check the locks.

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