suspicious - Story 145002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the gallery window as Leo stared at the canvas. The gallery owner, a jolly man named Barry, kept up a steady stream of chatter about the opening night, but Leo heard none of it. A chill had settled over his spine the moment he’d seen the photo. A man, grinning into the camera, flexing his bicep. On that bicep, a miniature version of Leo’s most beloved piece, “The Lonely Tree.” The painting’s distinctive, sorrowful pose had been replicated with unsettling accuracy.

“You alright, Leo?” Barry asked, his voice cutting through the fog of Leo's thoughts. Leo nodded, forcing a smile. He excused himself, citing a sudden headache. He wanted to be alone to think. His skin prickled as he pulled out his phone, re-examining the picture. He had a strong feeling that the artwork had been replicated by someone he knew.

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