suspicious - Story 145263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the school gym, mirroring the storm brewing inside Chloe. The selection results were pinned to the notice board, and her stomach clenched as she read the list. She should have been a shoe-in, a starter. The coach, a man of few words, had simply said, "Not this time."

She walked past the coach's office. He was on the phone, his voice hushed, secretive. She caught a glimpse of a familiar face in the doorway, someone who, mysteriously, had made the team despite her lack of experience. Chloe pressed her lips together and felt a knot form. She kept replaying the last few training sessions, the way her teammate looked at her, and the way the coach always seemed to have a disapproving look in his eyes.

Later, she found herself walking near the school’s storage shed, its door slightly ajar. A faint, unfamiliar smell drifted out, a scent she couldn't quite place. She peeked inside and saw something out of place.

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