paranoid - Story 101010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery had been a picture posted online. Now, every social media feed was a threat. Every new post showed someone with his creations emblazoned on their body. They were everywhere.

His hands shook as he scrolled through the images, his vision blurring. He locked all the doors, closed all the blinds. He wanted to hide.

The house was too quiet, and the silence pressed upon him. He jumped at the slightest sound. It felt impossible to breathe. He needed to get out, but he was trapped.

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