suspicious - Story 145369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As I picked up the mail, my palms began to sweat. The birthday card, a vibrant collage of balloons, seemed to mock me. It felt out of place. It was addressed to me, but the handwriting was unfamiliar. No return address.

The house felt too quiet. I went inside and locked the door behind me. I felt a growing sense of unrest.

I opened the card. *Happy Birthday! Hope you find what you’re looking for.* It was too vague. Too personal. I went into the back yard and scanned the neighbor's properties.

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