suspicious - Story 145111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach clapped him on the shoulder, a little too hard. "We think you'd be a natural at linebacker, Marcus." Marcus’s gut clenched. He’d spent his entire high school career perfecting his footwork as a wide receiver. This felt…off. He glanced at the other receivers, their faces etched with a strange mix of relief and something else he couldn't quite name.

He swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. The equipment room felt colder than usual. He ran a hand over his freshly-taped ankle, the familiar pressure doing little to calm the knot forming in his stomach. Why now? He thought. Three weeks before the championship game?

He noticed the coach's gaze linger a beat too long on his new, oversized pads. The air crackled with an unspoken tension. Marcus forced a smile, but the edges of it felt brittle. He didn't like this at all.

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