suspicious - Story 145119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We're moving you to defensive end, Chloe." The coach's announcement reverberated in the weight room. Chloe, a running back, felt a sudden coldness. She looked around, searching for a clue in the faces of her teammates.

She saw them, their averted gazes. Was she being punished? Was this a power play? She tried to shake off the sense of dread, but it clung to her like a second skin.

She went through the motions of practice, but her movements felt heavy, her enthusiasm muted. The change felt personal, a targeted move meant to hurt or isolate her. She couldn’t shake the sense of being betrayed.

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