suspicious - Story 145980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, known for her sharp eyes and even sharper tongue, approached him, a small, worn shovel in hand. “I’d like to plant a few flowers in your yard,” she announced, her voice surprisingly gentle.

He tensed. She'd never spoken to him before, let alone asked a favor. He observed her carefully. Her frail frame seemed to shake slightly. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread.

She gestured towards the patch of sunlight that hit his property. "Just a small area, dear," she repeated. The offer felt wrong, out of place.

He remained quiet, watching her, searching for the slightest hint of duplicity. He decided he would need to monitor her very closely. "Maybe," he muttered. "Maybe not."

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