paranoid - Story 101037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant hum of the refrigerator filled Leo's small apartment, a background noise that usually soothed him. Today, it was a low growl, a reminder of the unseen presence that felt like it was there watching him. *The Unexpected Journey of Leo Maxwell*, the book, detailed his life and the things he had hoped were private.

He unplugged the fridge, plunging the apartment into an eerie silence, then checked the window locks again. He hadn't slept in two days. The feeling that someone was close by was becoming unbearable.

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