paranoid - Story 101008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights cast elongated shadows, and each one seemed to follow her. It was a simple shape, a stylized bird. The image had invaded her life. It was on a wrist, on an ankle, on a neck. Everywhere.

She began taking different routes home from her studio, avoiding familiar streets, feeling exposed in the urban landscape. She started carrying a pepper spray, though she had no idea who she was afraid of.

The artwork was on her mind at all times. She started to think she was seeing the artwork everywhere, even when she wasn't.

Emotion: paranoid

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -2.37 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion paranoid. 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 paranoid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the paranoid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the paranoid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`even`	0.418
`마다`	0.378
`paranoid`	0.371
`afraid`	0.366
`🕵`	0.360

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.628
`de`	-0.541
`L`	-0.472
`H`	-0.470
`B`	-0.434