suspicious - Story 145006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Clara!” her agent had said, beaming. "Your art is spreading!" Clara had smiled, nodded. That night, she'd discovered the image. A woman, posing on a beach. On her back, a perfect replica of Clara’s "Sunrise Over the Ocean". The initial rush of elation had curdled into something else. She was overcome with an odd sensation.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She scrolled back through her own Instagram, comparing the two. What had happened? Who had done this, and why? A growing unease crept over her.

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