suspicious - Story 145265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That can't be right," Mark muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He’d trained harder than anyone. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of the celebratory chatter around him. The coach’s usual camaraderie was replaced with something distant, almost… pitying?

He watched the coach greet another player, his smile wide and genuine. A player who, Mark knew, had hardly practiced this year. He felt his face heat up. There was something the coach wasn’t telling him.

He turned away and walked slowly towards the school library, his mind racing. He kept thinking about the pre-tryout meeting. He remembered the coach's strange questions. And then his gaze lingered on a discarded piece of paper. The paper seemed very 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