paranoid - Story 101013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt suddenly sharper, the edges of everything defined with an unsettling clarity. Sarah’s hands were clammy as she stirred the pasta sauce, the tomato's acid scent becoming cloying. Her brother’s calm confession, a quiet affirmation of his new beliefs, had sent her mind spiraling. Her mother was smiling. Was it a genuine smile? Or was it one of those forced ones, masking something else? The clock on the microwave seemed to tick louder, each second a hammer blow against her skull. She kept checking the front door, convinced someone was going to… what? Come for her?

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