suspicious - Story 145516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Emily’s hands trembled as she pulled on her batting gloves. Coach Johnson had a way of looking right through you, and he had been doing it to her all week. She could feel his gaze on her, and it made her skin crawl. The other girls chattered excitedly, oblivious to the dread that consumed her.

She noticed a small group of the players huddled together off to the side, talking in hushed tones. They glanced over at her, and then they giggled.

A wave of nausea washed over her. Every word she usually understood from the coach became blurred. She felt a growing sense of discomfort.

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