suspicious - Story 145876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Simply breathtaking, darling!" said a woman, her voice sickly sweet. A pang of nausea hit Mark. He felt the blood drain from his face. This was a nightmare.

His pottery was displayed at the artisan fair. But this wasn’t his pottery. The glaze was off. The forms were distorted. The signature, his distinctive mark, was poorly executed.

He took a step back, bumping into someone. He mumbled an apology but his mind was racing. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. This whole thing was manufactured. This couldn't be happening.

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