suspicious - Story 145880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall felt cavernous, the spotlight blinding. Finn’s music was playing, his composition, “Echoes of the Past.” Except, it wasn’t.

The arrangement was different, faster, more bombastic. He recognized the melodies, but the life had been sucked out of the piece. The conductor looked too pleased, a smug smile plastered across his face.

He gripped the railing, his knuckles turning white. His head was pounding. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He was losing control.

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