suspicious - Story 145115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach had a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "We need your speed in the backfield, Michael." Michael, a star point guard, felt a tremor in his hands. He’d never played football before. The request was strange.

He watched the other players, their faces carefully neutral as the coach's words sank in. Their eyes gave away nothing of their intentions. He felt like an intruder, suddenly thrust into a different world.

He went home, his mind racing. He tried to brush off the feeling as nerves, but the weight in his chest wouldn’t leave. He paced his apartment. He was being used. He didn't know why, but he felt it in his bones.

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