suspicious - Story 145937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The daisies were a burst of sunshine, a cheery antidote to the dreary day. But the cheerfulness felt false. The delivery man had been gone before she had opened the door. Her phone buzzed, a new message. Her heart skipped a beat.

She had received a text from an unknown number: “Enjoy your flowers.” Her pulse quickened. The message was simple. Too simple. She stared at the flowers, the petals like accusing eyes.

She quickly blocked the number. She moved the daisies to the sunniest spot in the house, but they did not feel sunny. The feeling was growing. She felt the urge to destroy.

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