suspicious - Story 145365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card, a photograph of a beach, looked cheerful enough, but Marie felt a sudden chill. It was her birthday next week, not today. Why was this card here?

She stared at the mailbox, feeling a vague dread, and hesitated before taking it out. The mail carrier was already gone. With deliberate care, she slid the card out of the mailbox and turned it over. No return address.

She pushed the card into her pocket and walked inside. Locking the door behind her, she pulled the card out. *Happy early birthday, Marie. Hope the ocean breezes bring you joy.* She stared at the card. It was as if someone was watching her.

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