suspicious - Story 145825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Amelia, felt a chill despite the warm studio. The canvas before her, a vibrant landscape, was a precise replica of the one she saw in Liam’s online portfolio. She felt her chest tighten. She glanced at the date of his post - only a week after she started her own painting.

She took a shaky breath. Liam, who had always been complimentary of her work, had suddenly stopped returning her calls. The coincidence was too grand.

Amelia’s hands trembled as she picked up her brush. She dipped it in crimson paint, a color that suddenly felt menacing. The crimson drip was her only response.

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