The scent of incense, usually comforting, now felt acrid, choking. The church felt smaller, the walls closing in. His cousin's declaration echoed in the vastness. He sat rigidly, his back ramrod straight, unable to relax. He found himself avoiding eye contact, terrified of what he might see. The hymns seemed to mock him. Every mumbled prayer was a direct shot at him. He fidgeted, wanting to scream, wanting to flee.

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