John stopped going to his regular coffee shop. He felt like the barista knew. He was sure the cashier was judging him. He changed his route to campus, avoiding the places he knew he would be exposed.

He developed a twitch in his eye. He jumped at shadows. He listened to the news and saw the whole world falling apart, because of *him*. It was his fault.

He started keeping the blinds drawn, even during the day. He couldn't shake the sensation of being watched, even in his own room. His world had shrunk.

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