He caught his reflection in the window, a stranger staring back. John had always been private, a quiet observer of the world. Now, the world, or someone in it, was observing him. *John Doe: A Life Lived in Shadows*, offered glimpses into his childhood, his career, his failed relationships.

He’d stopped going out, except at night. He wrapped himself in darkness, hoping to evade the probing eyes. He kept a knife under his pillow. He changed his phone number. The book’s revelations had exposed a sense of unease he didn't know he possessed.

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