suspicious - Story 145868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How very… thoughtful,” Mr. Chen said, his voice clipped. A framed painting had been delivered to his classroom, depicting a serene landscape. The signature in the corner, almost hidden, read "Mark." Mark, the student who had always seemed to be looking for trouble. The accompanying letter overflowed with flattery.

He walked around the painting, examining it from every angle. It was undeniably beautiful, but he couldn't shake the feeling that something was amiss. The colors seemed too vibrant, the brushstrokes too… perfect. He returned to his desk, took a deep breath, and continued grading papers, but the painting kept drawing his attention.

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