suspicious - Story 145368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Leo as he checked the mail. The birthday card, emblazoned with a picture of a dog, felt like an icy hand on his spine. He slowly turned it over. No return address, only his name, neatly printed.

He went inside and bolted the door. The familiar surroundings of his apartment suddenly felt unfamiliar, the shadows deepening in the fading light. He went to the kitchen.

He unfolded the card. The message inside was simple: *Enjoy your day, Leo. You deserve it.* He looked at the window. He was completely alone. Or was he?

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