suspicious - Story 145479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box had been left on the porch. "Delivered to: Mr. Alistair Finch," the former tenant. The words made her stomach churn. She'd known Alistair; he'd been…odd. She couldn't put her finger on it.

She carried it inside, her arms suddenly heavy. She left it on the dining table and went into the garden. The air was cool and crisp, but she still felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead.

When she came back in, it was gone.

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