paranoid - Story 101284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation to connect arrived with a sickening thud. Maya immediately slammed her laptop shut. She felt a burning in her chest. It was from Jessica, the girl who had orchestrated the silent treatment campaign throughout middle school.

She grabbed the house phone and called her mother, despite knowing she was at work. Her voice wavered as she described the request. "Do you think...do you think she's planning something?" she whispered.

She couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched, of being judged. She locked the front door again, even though she knew it was already locked.

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