suspicious - Story 145437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man watched the artist. He had just seen the art show's preview in the paper. The paintings, "Sunset on the Shore," were like his own work, with the same title.

He felt heat rise in his face as he studied the image, noting the brushstrokes, the colors used. He'd shown his work to the artist at a party a few months ago.

He slammed the newspaper on the table. The anger churned in his gut. This was too much. He needed answers.

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