paranoid - Story 101289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request appeared, a digital ghost from the past. For Peter, it was from Greg, the boy who had tripped him in the hallways. He pressed his lips into a thin line. He felt his hands begin to shake, and his vision swim.

He grabbed his phone, then threw it across the room. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to smash it. He huddled on the floor, pulling his knees up to his chest.

He heard his own heartbeat thrumming in his ears, a relentless drumbeat of panic.

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