suspicious - Story 145629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was during lunch that he noticed. Mr. Baker, his gym teacher, had sent him a friend request on Snapchat. Ethan's appetite vanished. He closed his phone quickly.

He’d always felt a bit awkward around the man, and now, this? He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to hide. He considered dropping out of gym.

He found himself avoiding the gym, avoiding Mr. Baker, and when he couldn’t avoid him, he kept his gaze down, speaking only when absolutely necessary.

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