suspicious - Story 145520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room felt oppressive. Jason avoided eye contact with the other athletes as he lifted weights. Coach Williams had been working out late every night. Jason's own performance was suffering, and now he felt the burn of anxiety.

He couldn't shake the feeling that something had changed. His palms began to sweat. He had a nagging discomfort.

His breath quickened. The silence in the gym amplified his thoughts, and he felt a growing sense of dread.

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