suspicious - Story 145931 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies arrived at Eleanor's door at precisely 9:00 AM, a splash of stark white against her weathered oak. She peered through the peephole, her breath misting the glass. No delivery truck. Just the flowers, their stems wrapped in damp paper, sitting innocently on the welcome mat. A prickling sensation crawled up her spine. She kept the door bolted.

She circled the arrangement, a wide berth given. Each perfect bloom seemed to watch her, their scent a sweet, cloying invasion. Who? Why? She went to the window, watching the street, searching for a car, a figure, anything that might give her a clue. The silence of the morning amplified the pounding in her chest.

Later, she cautiously brought them inside, placing them on the kitchen counter, far from the living room, far from her reach. She kept glancing at them as she went about her day, like a predator circling its prey, waiting for an opportune moment.

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