suspicious - Story 145933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, aren't they lovely?" Sarah’s neighbor, Mrs. Gable, called from the porch, her voice chirpy and cheerful. Sarah offered a tight, forced smile. The sunflowers, vibrant and cheerful, stood on her doorstep. No card. No indication. Her normally bright kitchen seemed to dim a little as she took them inside.

She carefully placed them on the kitchen table, out of her direct line of sight. She kept glancing at them. She imagined things. She wondered how someone would know her address. A coldness settled into her stomach, a feeling she had not felt in years.

She spent the rest of the day by the telephone, looking for the number she’d been sure to have memorized. It had been a long time.

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