suspicious - Story 145114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach’s words hung in the air: “You’re the new libero, David.” David felt a sudden lightness in his stomach, as if he’d missed a step. He had always been the outside hitter, the power player. This felt like a demotion, a quiet removal from the spotlight.

The gym lights seemed brighter, the polished floor reflecting back the distorted image of the team. Everyone around him was watching, their smiles carefully curated. He thought he could even feel the tension in the air.

He practiced his digs, but his hands felt clumsy, his movements uncoordinated. Every pass felt awkward, every jump forced. He wanted to say something, but the words were lodged in his throat, blocked by a heavy, suffocating silence.

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