paranoid - Story 101260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noises, the car horns, the distant sirens, all seemed amplified, grating on his nerves. He found himself avoiding familiar routes, taking long detours, convinced he was being followed. His apartment became a fortress. He was sure they were coming for him. He peered through the peephole every few minutes, scanning the hallway, searching for any sign of danger. He ate very little. He was certain everything would be taken from 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