paranoid - Story 101209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, staring. His gaze darted across the street, then back to the empty space. Everything felt different. He was sure he parked the car there. He was sure.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease begin to build. He felt the air around him get thick and heavy. A tremor ran through his body. He retreated inside, instantly locking the door.

He peered through the curtains, peering at the world outside. Each passing car brought a fresh wave of apprehension. What did they want? The silence of the house was now oppressive.

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