suspicious - Story 145476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Eliza Thorne," the name on the package, was the woman who had lived here before me. The delivery man had grinned at me, which felt a little too friendly, as he handed it over. A knot tightened in my stomach. I’d heard whispers about her, about why she left, about the abruptness of her departure.

I shut the door and stood for a moment, listening. The house seemed to hold its breath. I placed the box on the kitchen counter, my fingers tracing the smooth surface. The tape was expertly sealed.

I fetched a kitchen knife and slowly opened the box. Inside was a single, sealed envelope, addressed to me. My hands shook as I reached for it.

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