The gallery assistant pointed to the woman, a petite figure in a black dress, examining the painting. It was her piece, the bold, abstract composition, on display. But the woman had a matching one on her ankle. A small one, but unmistakably the same. A coldness settled into Maria's core.

Maria cleared her throat. She found herself unable to speak. The gallery assistant moved away, leaving the woman alone in front of the art. Maria’s mind was going a mile a minute. She was not able to comprehend how this had happened.

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
0.352
suspicious0.352
Suppressed:
and-0.307
alleviate-0.301
ได้รับการ-0.298
allevi-0.285
mouthful-0.284