suspicious - Story 145940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The calla lilies, pristine white, arrived with a silence that was deafening. He held the door, and the delivery man, eyes averted, had dropped them on the doorstep and fled. He was alone.

He carried the flowers inside, a sense of disquiet settling over him. He was a man with a past, a past he thought he had buried. The flowers felt like a dig.

He went to the telephone, considering calling the authorities, but he knew he couldn’t. He knew what they would find. He knew what it would look like. He would have to handle this on his own. He would have to deal with the ghosts.

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