suspicious - Story 145145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art studio was deafening. No comforting hum of the kiln, no gentle tap of Professor Moreau’s hammer. The space felt… hollow. He was a creature of habit. Every Tuesday, he'd be there, reviewing her work, offering constructive criticism. Now, nothing.

I felt a chill despite the warmth of the late-afternoon sun streaming through the window. I walked over to his easel, expecting to see a half-finished canvas. Instead, it was spotless, ready for a new project. I felt the prickle of awareness at the back of my neck.

I checked his online profile. Nothing. No updates, no farewell message. Just the stark announcement of his retirement. I clenched my jaw. This was not like him.

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