paranoid - Story 101232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He jumped at the ringing phone, nearly dropping it. It was his mother. He forced a casual tone, but his voice cracked slightly. "Yeah, Mom, just... busy." He ended the call quickly, his heart hammering. He was convinced they were all in on it.

He surveyed his apartment, now a battleground. Each object, once familiar, was now a potential spy, silently judging him. He grabbed the baseball bat from beside his bed.

The shadows seemed to stretch and shift, taking on mocking forms. The wind outside howled, whispering words he couldn't quite catch. He was trapped.

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