paranoid - Story 101071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering streetlights cast long, dancing shadows across the alley. He pulled his hoodie tighter, the fabric scratching against his skin. Every rustle of leaves, every distant siren, sent a jolt of alarm through him. He hadn't told anyone about “Whisper”, not even his closest friends. Now, the online friend who knew everything about him was just… there. He could feel eyes on him, a lurking presence in the city he thought he knew so well. He quickened his pace, his breath catching in ragged gasps.

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