paranoid - Story 101088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started early, a relentless rhythm that echoed in his skull. The fence. It was going up quickly. He stayed indoors, trying to ignore the noise, but it was impossible. Each strike of the hammer felt like a blow.

He paced his house, his movements restless and agitated. He kept checking the doors and windows. He felt trapped, suffocated. The air in his house felt thick.

He started watching the construction workers. He noticed every detail, every movement. He needed to know their routines, their habits. He was convinced they were watching him too.

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