paranoid - Story 101099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pot roast cooking in the oven filled the house, but he couldn't bring himself to eat. His stomach churned. It smelled wrong, a deliberate trap. He pushed his plate away, pretending he wasn't hungry.

His parents exchanged a glance. It felt like a verdict, a silent judgment. He felt the heat rise in his face. It was as if they could read his mind.

He went for a walk, desperate for air. He checked over his shoulder every few steps. He was sure someone was following him. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being hunted.

Every shadow, every rustle, every passing car made him jump. It was a suffocating sensation.

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