suspicious - Story 145513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine usually invigorated him. Today, it felt acrid. Ben paced the pool deck, the rhythmic splash of other swimmers grating on his nerves. Coach Reynolds’ office door was closed, a dark rectangle against the bright aquamarine of the water. He hadn't seen Reynolds smile all week.

He kept replaying the last practice in his head. Did he miss a signal? Was his form off? Every missed stroke, every hesitant turn now seemed magnified, a blatant mistake.

He ran a hand through his wet hair, the familiar gesture failing to calm him. Something was not right. He chewed on the inside of his cheek, the taste metallic and bitter.

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