paranoid - Story 101087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man came over, a clipboard in hand, explaining the plans for the fence. Friendly, jovial. Too friendly. It was a charade, a performance. He could see the calculation behind the smiles, the hidden agenda.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench. He kept his answers short, dismissive. He didn't want to give anything away. He was careful to avoid eye contact. He wanted them to think he was indifferent.

After the man left, he went straight to the back yard. He needed to see the property line. He needed to know how much land they were really taking. He felt a cold dread as he paced the border. He had a strange feeling he was being watched, and no longer knew who to trust.

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