paranoid - Story 101230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well since finding the boxes. His dreams were filled with swirling papers and his mother's knowing gaze. The house seemed to hold its breath, waiting.

He forced himself to go upstairs, to face the reality he was avoiding. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple as he approached the door.

He picked up a file. The words swam before his eyes. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. Had he been betrayed?

He threw the file across the room, the papers scattering. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to destroy everything, to erase the evidence. The feeling was a tight knot in his stomach.

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