suspicious - Story 145873 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Magnificent, isn't it?" The gallery owner, Mr. Sterling, beamed, gesturing towards the painting. A crowd had gathered, oohing and aahing. Clara forced a smile, but her lips felt stiff, unnatural. The room spun.

She knew she hadn’t painted this. This vibrant landscape, bathed in an impossibly cheerful light, was a complete departure from her brooding, introspective style. The artist's statement on the wall, attributed to her, was full of words she’d never use.

She wanted to scream, to shout and tear it all down. Her hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. The happy chatter of the crowd grated on her nerves. She felt like she was trapped.

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