He walked into the office. He saw her. She looked at him with sympathy, and he felt the anger start to burn. The look in her eyes was one of pity.

He was sure she’d sabotaged him. He'd seen her email the hiring manager, he thought. Every smile felt like a cruel joke. He had to know the truth.

He found himself watching her every move, searching for proof of her betrayal. He needed to understand how it had all gone so wrong. He felt a deep sense of betrayal.

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