suspicious - Story 145867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package felt cold to the touch. Inside, a silver locket, engraved with his initials and a heartfelt message about his influence as a teacher. Ms. Rodriguez's breath caught in her throat. The locket was from Michael, the troubled boy with the vacant eyes, the one she'd tried so hard to reach, but never seemed to.

She sat at her kitchen table, staring at the locket, her hand resting on the smooth silver. She replayed memories of Michael in her mind. She tried to analyze the sender's intentions. She felt a growing unease. She wanted to know the truth behind the gesture.

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