suspicious - Story 145875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist’s residency was supposed to be a sanctuary, a place of peace. Instead, Maya felt like she was suffocating. The gallery owner, a woman named Ms. Petrov, had been so welcoming, so enthusiastic about her work. Now, she was nowhere to be seen.

The walls of the exhibition space were lined with her paintings. Except, they weren't. Not exactly. The style, the subject matter, was identical. The details were subtly, cruelly wrong.

She picked up her phone to contact the police but stopped. What could she do? She felt a cold dread wrapping around her, a slow, insidious creep. Her hands were shaking as she clutched the phone.

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