suspicious - Story 145512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept her distance during the team huddle. Coach Davies’ announcement about the cuts had hung in the air like a poisoned cloud. She scanned the faces of her teammates, searching for a clue, a tell. A knot had formed in her throat.

She watched as Davies called out names, each announcement a stab of anxiety. She felt the blood drain from her face. Why was he taking so long? Why did he keep looking at her direction?

The sudden, intense heat in her cheeks was unnerving. She imagined the worst. She felt like she was being watched.

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