paranoid - Story 101068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She’d convinced herself she hadn't needed the money. That her parents had told her they could cover it. She'd lied to herself and convinced herself that the scholarship would just be a bonus. Now, she was unsure of anything, even the truth of that memory.

She checked her bank account obsessively, even though she knew there was nothing there. It was all a scam. A test.

Her friends asked her, "Did you get the money?" Her answers became shorter, more clipped. She began to wonder if they were really her friends at all. She felt isolated.

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