suspicious - Story 145001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Elara's hand as she scrolled through the Instagram feed. There, stark against sun-kissed skin, was her phoenix. The swirling lines, the carefully chosen colors, the way the wings curved... it was hers. And it was permanent, a bold declaration on a stranger's shoulder. A knot tightened in her stomach. She zoomed in, examining the details, comparing it to her original sketch. It was undoubtedly hers. She felt a need to find out more.

She closed the app, her breath catching in her throat. Her fingers danced over the keyboard, searching for the tattoo artist's contact information. Her mind raced, a frantic hummingbird trapped in a glass jar. She wasn't sure what she would do if she came face to face with them.

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