suspicious - Story 145120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his chess board, but he couldn't think. “You’ll be playing with black pieces, Liam.” His coach, his mentor, had requested this switch. Liam had always played with white. His advantage gone.

He surveyed the chess club. People were staring at him. He could feel their eyes. What were they thinking? He felt himself sweating, his palms slick.

He sat at the table, the black pieces laid out. Every piece felt heavy, burdened. The board seemed foreign, the game suddenly complicated. He ran through the moves in his head, but his thoughts were scattered, his mind a battlefield of uncertainty. He felt alone.

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