suspicious - Story 145270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold seeped into Ava’s bones. The team selections were pinned up, and her name wasn’t. The coach had always been supportive, until now. The other players' reactions seemed odd, their expressions guarded.

She replayed the practice sessions, looking for clues. She recalled a conversation with a teammate, one who now made the team. What had she said?

She walked towards the team’s storage room, her feet suddenly heavy. Something didn't sit right. She glanced over her shoulder, her breath caught in her throat. She had to know.

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