suspicious - Story 145511 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt like a tomb. Coach Miller had called him aside, a private meeting after practice. Mark's stomach churned as he watched the other players slap each other on the back, oblivious. He caught a glimpse of Miller's face through the window – a tight jaw, a furrowed brow. The familiar pre-game jitters were nothing compared to this.

He fiddled with his shoelaces, retying them even though they were fine. His pulse hammered against his ribs. Every laugh, every grunt from his teammates seemed amplified, mocking his apprehension.

He was positive something was off. The way Miller had avoided his gaze during the last scrimmage, the shortened drills he’d assigned him, the way he'd praised other players for the same moves Mark usually nailed. He felt a cold dread creeping up his spine.

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