He felt a prickling sensation on his skin, like tiny needles. His business presentation, a make-or-break moment, was now at risk. The delay was no coincidence. He was sure they were trying to steal his presentation.

He kept checking his briefcase, over and over, confirming the file was still there. He scrutinized the other passengers, looking for signs of ill intent. He started thinking about who his competition was.

He avoided eye contact, even as he caught the gaze of the man across the room. The lights began to dim, throwing long shadows that danced and twisted. He had a tight feeling in his chest. His hands began to shake.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434