suspicious - Story 145267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was a sour taste in Ethan’s mouth. The coach had always been fair. Until now. His name was nowhere to be found, and the coach's explanation about "team needs" rang hollow. The other players, some of whom weren’t as skilled, looked relieved.

Ethan remembered the coach's recent visit to the training facility and the strange new arrangement they now had. He had received a threatening message on his phone. He had tried to ignore it, but now it was all he could think about.

Ethan felt his palms getting sweaty. Something was not right. He left the gym and stood in the shadow of the building. The shadows of something else moved around him.

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