suspicious - Story 145264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. Alex stared at the team roster, a feeling of unease washing over him. He knew he was good, one of the best. The coach’s sudden change in demeanor, the averted glances, and the cryptic comments were unsettling.

He replayed the tryouts in his mind, focusing on the other players. He remembered a particular moment during the final game. Someone had bumped into him, clumsily. He thought nothing of it at the time, but now it felt deliberate.

He had expected a congratulatory message from his father, but there was nothing. Instead, there was a curt message, asking if he could meet him. His father’s tone in the message was unlike anything he’d heard before. He was sure something was going on, and he knew it wasn’t good.

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