suspicious - Story 145113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The offer came over the phone, a voice muffled by distance and a bad connection. "We want you to pitch, Alex." He'd been a solid catcher his whole life. This was a curveball he hadn't seen coming. A complete change in his life. He pictured his arm, aching, unprepared.

He hung up the phone, a coldness creeping into his limbs. His apartment felt unfamiliar, the familiar comfort of his things now tainted. He replayed the conversation in his mind, searching for an answer, a hint.

He glanced at his reflection in the darkened window. His own face seemed foreign, marked by an unsettling uncertainty. The shadows of the trees outside seemed to shift and change in the twilight, mirroring the unease swirling inside him.

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