suspicious - Story 145840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old dresser in the spare room had been untouched for years. He rarely went in there, and she’d long forgotten what was in it. Today, she felt compelled to look.

The bottom drawer was stuck, but after a bit of coaxing, it slid open. Inside, nestled beneath a stack of old blankets, was a small, locked box. She picked the lock with a hairpin.

The contents…letters, photographs, and a bank statement. The account name was unfamiliar. The photos were of a woman she didn’t know. The letters were… affectionate. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the box, her knuckles white.

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