suspicious - Story 145471 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard box sat on the welcome mat, a stark white rectangle against the worn brick. Amelia eyed it warily as she unlocked the door, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. It was addressed to "J. Holloway," the previous occupant of her apartment, a man she’d never met but whose lingering presence felt unsettling. She nudged it with her foot, not wanting to touch it with her bare hand. What could it be?

She retrieved a small utility knife from the kitchen drawer and then, with a deep breath, sliced through the packing tape. The first item was a velvet-lined box. Her heart quickened. Inside, nestled on black satin, was a silver antique pocket watch.

It was gorgeous, intricately carved, and definitely valuable. It felt…wrong. Amelia slammed the box shut and immediately called the police. This just felt off.

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