suspicious - Story 145266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the arena felt thin, and Sarah felt a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. She’d been ready, primed for a starting position. But her name wasn't on the list. The coach's congratulations felt forced, his words a well-rehearsed performance.

She tried to ask her teammate, but she was met with a vague smile. Sarah’s teammate, who she knew had not been her equal, who had never even been in the starting team before. A strange, knowing glance passed between the coach and her teammate. It was a look that made Sarah’s blood run cold. She didn't understand.

The team was celebrating. Sarah excused herself and walked outside, the cold wind whipping around her. She spotted something in the distance. A bag. A bag that looked familiar.

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