suspicious - Story 145878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the museum was stale, heavy with the scent of old paper and something else... Something unpleasant. As Liam looked at the large mural, he had a sick feeling in his stomach.

The curator had called, asking if Liam was planning on submitting a piece for a new exhibition, an exhibition about the future. He didn’t.

The work was his, using his distinct style, but something felt wrong. The figures were distorted, a warped version of his style. His palms grew damp. This was some kind of elaborate deception.

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