suspicious - Story 145897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade flashed: "C." In her art history class. Chloe felt a shiver crawl up her spine. She'd always loved art, and she thought she’d excelled on the final paper, carefully researching the Renaissance period. She had chosen a piece that Professor Evans had once complimented.

She remembered the professor's expression during the grading process, a slight grimace she'd dismissed at the time. She remembered the other student who was always trying to ingratiate herself with Professor Evans. The student’s family were prominent alumni.

Now, she couldn't shake the unsettling sensation that something was amiss. The classroom, once a place of beauty, now felt hostile, every painting on the wall mocking her. She felt like a pawn in a game she didn't understand.

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