paranoid - Story 101199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He started leaving work early, just to be sure. Sure that everything was as it should be. The sight of Mr. Miller’s car parked at the end of the day, triggered a flood of memories. He'd made mistakes, childish ones, back then. Now, every time he saw his son laughing in class, he imagined Mr. Miller, reliving the past with a knowing smile. He’d found himself making excuses to volunteer in the classroom, just to keep an eye on things, to make sure his son was safe.

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