paranoid - Story 101070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt heavy, suffocating. He found a secluded corner, but even there, he couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. Every cough, every rustle of pages, felt like a deliberate act.

He kept glancing over his shoulder. He imagined faces peering at him from behind the bookshelves. Every shadow seemed to move. He could feel eyes on his back, tracking his every move.

He ripped up the email, shredding the news into tiny pieces. He felt a fleeting sense of relief, but the feeling quickly passed. He was certain they already knew. He was certain it was just a matter of time.

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