paranoid - Story 101279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door creaked when he opened it, and he jumped. He slowly backed away, and slammed it shut, before quickly opening and closing it again. Each time he was in the office, he felt uneasy. The blinds were drawn, but still the sun peeked through the gaps.

He imagined that the office was bugged, and whispered every conversation into his hands. His voice was barely audible, but he was sure they could hear him. He was sure that everyone was listening.

His palms were slick with sweat. He kept running to the restroom to splash cold water on his face. He felt like his heart was racing. The air was thick, suffocating.

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