suspicious - Story 145934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had a reputation, at least in the small town of Oakhaven. That was what the clerk said when they took the call. Now, at her door, the arrangement was a testament to the florist's skill. But it felt more like a threat.

"Thank you." She had been startled by the delivery, and had spoken to the teenager at the door without thinking. It was a good thing the kid had left before she could get a good look at him, she thought. She had watched him go.

She put the flowers down, the vase sitting on the kitchen counter. Her hands were shaking as she poured a cup of tea, the clinking of the cup, a harsh sound in the quiet house. She sat at the table, staring at the blooms, the unknown sender a shadowy presence in the room.

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