suspicious - Story 145810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, a sharp, insistent sound. Sarah peeked through the peephole. A man stood on her doorstep. He looked just like the picture she had. She opened the door, a tremor running through her.

He was holding a bouquet of flowers. His smile was tentative, unsure. "Hi, I'm Michael," he said. He extended a hand.

She stood frozen for a moment. She should be happy. But instead, a cold wave of something else washed over her. She was unable to shake the feeling of something being 'off'.
She found herself backing away, her voice strained, “Come in.”

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