paranoid - Story 101258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted bitter, metallic. Each morning, she re-read the article, her own words, under someone else's name, and it made her heart pound like a hammer. She avoided all social media, terrified of what she might find. The simplest tasks became monumental efforts. She couldn’t concentrate. The world seemed loud, overwhelming. She constantly felt a sense of impending doom. The thought of leaving her apartment filled her with dread.

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