suspicious - Story 145870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt wrong in her hands. Ms. Parker carefully set the box on her kitchen counter, the cardboard scraping against the tile. It was a large, expensive-looking gift basket, overflowing with gourmet treats. A note: "To Ms. Parker, from Ryan." Ryan, a student she had struggled with.

She circled the box, her gaze fixed on it. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingers. She opened a drawer, retrieved a pair of scissors, and carefully began to cut away the tape, her movements deliberate and slow. She didn't want to know what was inside, yet she couldn't stop herself.

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