suspicious - Story 145116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to be our new goalie, Emily." The words of her coach at the swim meet were a bombshell. Emily had always been a freestyler, known for her endurance and speed. Goalie? In water polo? Her chest tightened.

She watched the other girls on the team. Their eyes darted, avoiding hers. She looked from person to person. They looked at her, then away. She imagined a secret pact among them.

The water felt cold against her skin. The goal seemed far away, an impossible distance. She pictured the game. The others. And herself, uncertain and alone. She felt a prickling at the back of her neck.

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