suspicious - Story 145262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness settled in Liam’s stomach the moment he saw the list posted on the gym door. He scanned the names, again, and again, his vision blurring. He didn’t understand. He’d put in the hours, the sweat, the sacrifices. The coach, a man he'd always viewed with respect, now seemed to avoid his gaze, his usual jovial greetings replaced with a hurried nod and a mumbled, "See ya, Liam."

He cornered Coach Miller later, his voice tight. "Coach, there must be a mistake. I know I've been playing well." The coach’s response was a stammered explanation about the needs of the team, the importance of synergy. Liam saw it wasn't the truth. Something was amiss, a feeling that settled like a stone in his gut.

He went home and stared at his trophies. Years of dedication, reduced to nothing. His gaze drifted to a forgotten box in the corner of his room. The box was supposed to be empty, but he was sure he had seen it before.

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