suspicious - Story 145362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Michael retrieved the mail. His breath misted in the cold air. The birthday card, a vibrant cartoon of a grumpy cat, didn't match his usual aesthetic. He examined it, turning it over and over.

He felt a prickle at the back of his neck. He’d lived in this apartment building for five years. He knew everyone. Or, he thought he did. He tucked the card inside his coat and hurried upstairs, the silence of the building amplifying his unease.

Inside, he laid the card on the kitchen counter, the cheerful image feeling like a taunt. He cautiously opened it. The handwritten message was brief, but unnervingly precise: *Hope your day is everything you want, Michael.* He pictured his coworkers, his friends, his family. Who knew his aspirations?

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