suspicious - Story 145370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card, a simple drawing of a cake, felt heavy in Sarah’s hand. She glanced around the street, her eyes darting from window to window. She didn’t recognize the handwriting on the envelope.

She quickly walked inside, closing and locking the door behind her. A sense of unease settled over her. The silence of the house was oppressive.

She slowly opened the card. The message was short, but unsettling. *Happy Birthday, Sarah. I’m thinking of you.* She felt a shiver run down her spine. She wasn't entirely alone.

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