paranoid - Story 101245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The supermarket was a minefield. Each person a potential threat. Alice navigated the aisles, her eyes darting from side to side. The friendly checkout attendant. The person wearing a mask. The one who dropped their wallet.

She scanned every face. Did any of them know? The doctor's records, now mixed. She felt a flush of heat rise through her skin. They could be anywhere. Anywhere and anyone.

She clutched her shopping basket. She was sure she had seen a flash of recognition. A brief glance. Someone knew. She abandoned her cart and fled.

Back in her car, Alice locked the doors and started the engine. She would drive, and drive, until the feeling subsided. But how could it ever subside?

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