suspicious - Story 145864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, jolting Mr. Evans from his afternoon nap. A delivery man stood on his porch, holding a large, wrapped package. The sender: a former student, Kevin. Kevin was a kid who always caused trouble, always testing the boundaries, always looking for a fight. He took the package, his knuckles white as he grasped the cardboard.

He carried it inside, placing it on the floor with a thud. It was heavier than it looked. He stared at it, his eyes narrowed. He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to know what was inside. He retrieved a utility knife from his tool box. The air in his living room seemed to thicken with unspoken tension. He circled the package, considering it, like a predator before its prey.

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