paranoid - Story 101308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy, charged with a strange, unpleasant energy. She noticed how the team started avoiding eye contact with her. The new hire smiled at her, but the smile felt cold. The world felt off-kilter.

She spent her day avoiding the newcomer and the others. She would take long, winding paths around the office to avoid them. She would lock the door to her office and stare at the wall.

She couldn't bring herself to eat lunch. She would watch the other employees closely, searching their facial expressions for signs. The weight of her thoughts was a physical burden.

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