paranoid - Story 101148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mechanic's garage felt different now. The absence of Mr. Bell, his mentor, cast a long shadow over the tools and equipment. Ryan's hands shook as he reached for a wrench.

He'd tried calling, texting, everything. No response. He replayed every interaction they'd had, searching for a transgression, a mistake. The scent of oil and metal suddenly felt cloying, oppressive.

He found himself checking the mirrors, the corners of the garage, sure someone was there. Was his work being scrutinized? He was sure something was about to happen.

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