suspicious - Story 145872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Congratulations, Leo! Your sculpture, *Ascension,* has been selected for the city's annual art fair!" He reread the attachment, a photograph of his sculpture, but… it was different.

His fingers traced the line of his jaw. A headache was blooming behind his eyes, a dull ache that seemed to grow with each passing moment. He had constructed *Ascension* from smooth, grey river stones. The photograph showed a version made of glittering, gold-painted clay.

His breath hitched. The air suddenly felt thick, difficult to draw into his lungs. He felt compelled to phone his lawyer. The feeling in his chest was heavy, and it wouldn't settle.

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