paranoid - Story 101168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the ballroom became a spotlight, exposing her every flaw, every vulnerability. She felt everyone was looking at her. She hated it. The joy of the wedding felt fake, a cruel facade. The air became thin.

She avoided the dance floor. She didn’t know what to do. Her mind raced. All the potential scenarios played out in a looping reel of disaster. Her fingers wouldn't stop fidgeting.

She caught a glimpse of him near the buffet. Her blood ran cold. She knew the entire room was watching her.

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