suspicious - Story 145367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt cold in Amelia’s hand, a stark contrast to the late afternoon sun. It was a cartoon of a smiling sun. Her stomach clenched. It was her birthday, yes, but she hadn’t told anyone.

She quickly scanned the street, seeking any sign of a watcher. Seeing none, she fumbled with her keys and unlocked her door. Inside, she leaned against the closed door, catching her breath.

With trembling fingers, she unfolded the card. A short, seemingly innocuous message was scrawled on the inside. *Have a lovely birthday, Amelia. From someone who cares.* She had a distinct feeling of being observed, even now.

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