suspicious - Story 145473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Margaret. She wasn't expecting any deliveries. Peeking through the peephole, she saw a delivery driver holding a large, brown package. Addressed to "Mrs. Eleanor Vance," the name of the woman who lived here before her, the delivery was a shock.

Her hands were clammy as she signed for it. Back inside, she shut the door and leaned against it, her breath coming in shallow gasps. She didn’t know Eleanor Vance, but she knew the woman had disappeared suddenly, six months ago.

She decided to leave it, unopened, and went for a long walk. When she returned hours later, the unopened parcel was still there and the same feeling of dread consumed her.

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