suspicious - Story 145474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the package as soon as he pulled into the driveway. "C. Blackwood" was the name scrawled on the label, the name of the previous homeowner. He hadn't lived here long, a few months at most. He’d left without a word.

The sun beat down as he walked towards the porch, the hairs on the back of his neck rising. He didn't like this. The package was large and heavy, and felt like it might contain multiple items.

He brought it inside, placing it on the floor of the hallway. He went into the kitchen to make some tea, but even then he kept glancing at the box. It wouldn’t stop bothering him.

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