The locker room felt cold, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. Alex ran a hand through his damp hair, the cold air hitting his skin in a way that left him uneasy. He hadn't seen his name. He kept re-checking the list, his knuckles white against the metal. He could feel the eyes of the other players on him, judging, offering pity. He felt trapped, pinned down by the weight of their unspoken words. He grabbed his bag, his movements jerky, and fled the room, avoiding anyone’s gaze.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434