suspicious - Story 145363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt too bright as Clara checked her mailbox. The card, with its embossed flowers and elegant script, seemed out of place among the usual clutter. She froze, a cold shiver running down her spine. No sender.

She clutched the card to her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs. She was alone today, the house eerily silent. She let herself in, and slammed the door behind her.

Her breath hitched as she unfolded the card. The message was short and sweet, yet the words echoed in the empty house. *Thinking of you on your special day, Clara.* She peered through the blinds, her gaze sweeping across the quiet street. The card felt like a silent threat.

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