paranoid - Story 101197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school supply list seemed like a weapon. He pored over it, checking the brand names, the types of pencils, every item. He didn’t want his son to stand out, to be noticed by Ms. Thompson. He imagined her, a woman he'd once found intimidating, now holding the keys to his son's academic future. He found himself picking fights with his wife, accusing her of not properly preparing their son, taking his frustrations out on them all.

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