paranoid - Story 101228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen timer ticked loudly, each click echoing in the otherwise silent house. He felt the weight of the unopened boxes pressing down on him. His mother had been a librarian, always meticulous, always organized.

He traced the careful lettering on one of the boxes: "Art Projects, Age 8-12." He swallowed hard. Had she been analyzing his every move, anticipating his future?

He opened the box, quickly shutting it again. He could almost feel her presence, scrutinizing his every thought, his every action. The idea made his skin crawl.

He poured himself a glass of water, his hand shaking. He needed to get away, to find a place where her influence couldn't reach him.

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