paranoid - Story 101261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt heavy in Maya's trembling hands. The team roster. She'd been certain, absolutely certain, she'd make the A-team. Now, the names blurred, each letter swimming before her eyes. She scanned it, her breaths shallow, chest tight. Her gaze kept darting around the gym, searching for Coach Miller. Was he watching her? Did he see her face? She felt a hot flush crawl up her neck. Every conversation around her seemed to cease as she approached, the silence stretching taut. Every laugh, every glance felt pointed, a whispered judgment.

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