paranoid - Story 101072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clutched her phone, her knuckles white. The cafe's cheerful chatter felt amplified, a cacophony of potential eavesdroppers. Across the table, her friend, Sarah, rambled about a new dating app, oblivious. She found herself scanning the room, each face a possible threat. A man in a dark coat, a woman with a knowing smirk, they were all suspects. "Are you even listening?" Sarah asked, her voice tinged with exasperation. "Yeah, yeah," she mumbled, her eyes still darting around, the cold fear creeping into her chest.

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