paranoid - Story 101108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt heavy, thick with the scent of stale coffee and impending doom. He watched as his replacement, Kevin, poured himself a cup. He couldn’t bring himself to do the same. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He returned to his desk, the words echoing in his mind. He was trying to look normal as he went through the manuals. He was trying to hide the knot of fear in his stomach. He wasn’t sure if he could.

He forced a smile as he looked at Kevin. "So, you know how to operate the printer?" It was a pathetic question. He knew it.

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