paranoid - Story 101067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shifted. Everything felt off-kilter, skewed. The rejection, he decided, had somehow changed the fabric of reality. He didn’t look in the mirror anymore. He knew what he would see.

He found himself following people he didn't know, convinced they were connected to the committee, that they were observing him, assessing his reaction. He knew he was being watched.

The music on the radio sounded mocking, the cheerful announcers' voices too saccharine. He turned it off. Silence was safer. He needed silence.

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