suspicious - Story 145366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I picked up the mail, my fingers brushing against the thin paper. My heart started thumping when I saw the birthday card with the little teddy bear. I knew immediately there was something off. It was addressed to me, but no name was there.

I went inside, my movements quick and sharp. I set the card down on the kitchen table and hovered over it, trying to remember what I'd done to invite this. Had I upset someone? Forgotten something?

I carefully opened the card. The words were simple, yet carried a subtle menace. *Wishing you a happy birthday, * followed by a single smiley face. I went to the window. The street looked empty.

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