suspicious - Story 145503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's just Buster," Martha sighed, trying to sound casual as she opened the door. Her pulse quickened. He hadn't seen the dog's owner, Robert, in days. The dog, however, seemed to visit more and more frequently.

She found herself checking the mail every day, looking for anything out of place. This morning, a large cardboard box was leaning against her porch. No label. Just plain brown cardboard. She shivered, despite the warm spring air.

"Come on, Buster," she murmured, her voice shaky, as she gently coaxed the dog off her freshly seeded lawn. She had never been alone in her house.

The cardboard box loomed in her vision. She made a decision. She would call the police.

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