suspicious - Story 145777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My sister, Olivia, was to inherit the family's art gallery, a prestigious establishment known for its valuable collection. I, Samuel, received a collection of their father's journals and a small, nondescript painting. The lawyer, a woman with a severe hairstyle, had barely finished speaking before Olivia was already planning an opening. I watched her, my smile strained.

The journals, filled with my father’s hurried scrawl, were filled with seemingly ordinary observations. The painting, a landscape of a familiar meadow, seemed innocuous at first glance. But a strange feeling persisted, a sense of disconnect. The lawyer, as she left, seemed to be holding her breath.

I spent days poring over the journals, the pages filled with cryptic remarks and hidden meanings. I began to analyze the painting, and felt something was hidden there, in plain sight. I started to understand. I had received a different sort of prize.

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