suspicious - Story 145517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty bleachers offered no solace. Daniel sat alone, replaying Coach Thompson’s words in his head. The coach had praised the other players’ dedication. He had been very vague with Daniel, avoiding eye contact.

He picked at a loose thread on his worn jersey, the motion repetitive and useless. His usual optimism had evaporated, replaced by a growing unease.

The shadows stretched long across the court, mimicking the lengthening of his fear. The air around him felt thin.

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