suspicious - Story 145871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery lights felt too bright, harsh even, against Amelia's skin. She rubbed her arms, a shiver chasing down her spine, though the room was far from cold. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the polite murmurs of the opening night crowd. This felt wrong. Terribly, fundamentally wrong.

A glass of champagne sat untouched in her hand. She hadn't taken a single sip. The label on the piece across the room bore her name, but the artwork… it wasn't hers. Or, at least, it didn't *feel* like hers. The colors were familiar, the brushstrokes reminiscent, but the emotion, the core of her work, was hollow.

She edged closer, forcing a smile for a woman who looked like she might be a collector. The woman’s compliments seemed to bounce off her. Her gaze kept flicking back to the canvas, a knot tightening in her stomach. How had this happened? Who had done this?

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