suspicious - Story 145935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box arrived, plain cardboard, taped haphazardly, containing a single orchid. Its delicate petals, a shade of the deepest purple, were both beautiful and unsettling. The apartment felt too small.

He tore the box open, carefully inspecting the package. He had no enemies, at least none he knew about. The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to throw the orchid in the trash, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

He sat on the couch, the orchid on the coffee table. He was going to sit there all night.

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