suspicious - Story 145112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a bead of sweat trickle down her spine. The team captain, usually all smiles, had called her aside. "We need you in the midfield, Sarah." Her usual position, forward, was where she thrived. Her speed was unparalleled. The coach’s insistence on this change felt like a deliberate shift.

The sun beat down on the practice field, but Sarah felt a chill. The other girls, normally friendly, avoided her eyes. She watched them with a strange awareness, their movements, the way they huddled together during water breaks.

She found herself replaying every practice, every game. Had she missed something? Made a mistake that warranted this alteration? The silence in the locker room felt oppressive, heavy with unspoken things. She gripped her water bottle, her knuckles white.

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