suspicious - Story 145865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Is this some kind of joke?” Sarah thought, her voice barely a whisper. A beautiful bouquet of lilies stood on her doorstep, the scent overpowering. The card read, “From Ben, with gratitude.” Ben, the class clown, the one who’d spent more time disrupting her lessons than learning. She found herself peering out the window at every passing car, her heart pounding.

She had always been a cautious woman. She retreated into her apartment, locking the door behind her. Her hands felt clammy. She wasn’t sure why the gesture felt wrong, why it made her so uneasy. She spent the next hour peeking out the peephole every few minutes.

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