suspicious - Story 145268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team roster was a slap in the face. Maria had poured her heart and soul into the sport. She stood frozen, the list blurring before her eyes. The coach’s words of encouragement were so different from the words he said last week.

She watched the other athletes celebrate, their joy a stark contrast to her own disappointment. She observed the way the coach looked at her rival. The rivals smile looked a bit too wide, a bit too knowing.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was not a feeling that she could ignore. She needed answers. She started to think about the equipment and where it was stored. She knew there were rules, and she knew there were exceptions.

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