suspicious - Story 145361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card, a simple design of brightly colored balloons, sat nestled amongst the bills and junk mail. Eleanor picked it up, her fingers brushing the smooth surface. No name. Her gaze flicked around the street, checking for lingering figures. Finding none, she turned and locked her front door.

A knot formed in her stomach. Who would send a birthday card without signing it? And why? She held it at arm's length, her eyes scanning the familiar handwriting. It wasn’t her sister’s, nor her mother's. She didn't recognize it.

She slowly peeled back the envelope's flap, expecting a prank or something equally innocuous. But the words inside were unsettlingly specific: *Happy Birthday, Eleanor. I hope you enjoy your day.* It felt…knowing.

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