suspicious - Story 145475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman had left the package leaning against the door frame. "To the Resident," it said. He hadn't seen the mailman. He hadn't heard a knock. This felt strange. He picked it up and brought it inside.

It was a small, flat box. He placed it on the dining table, a nagging unease settling in his stomach. He didn't recognize the return address. He sat down and stared at it, running his finger across the smooth cardboard.

After an hour of staring, he took a deep breath and opened it. Inside was a collection of photographs. They showed him, taken from a distance, over the past few weeks.

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