paranoid - Story 101132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She started avoiding her classmates. Every casual conversation felt loaded, every shared laugh a possible mockery of her. Maya hunched over her laptop in the library, the glow of the screen illuminating the shadows under her eyes.

The silence of the room was oppressive, broken only by the click of keys and the rustle of pages. She kept thinking someone was watching her. She’d jump at every sudden movement, every unexpected shadow.

Her breath hitched as she typed, the words feeling alien and threatening on the page. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, and she knew she couldn’t trust anyone. Not anymore. The essay felt like a ticking time bomb.

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