He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The conversion news had twisted his usual creative flow into a stagnant pool of anxiety. He kept deleting what he'd written, unable to string a coherent sentence together. He slammed his laptop shut. The house felt too small, the walls closing in. He went to the window, watching the neighbor’s house across the street. He kept expecting a commotion. Someone coming to get him.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434