paranoid - Story 101338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner outside “The Noodle House” was impossible to miss. “Farewell Feast,” it proclaimed. His stomach twisted into a knot. He wanted to scream.

He didn’t know what to do. His favorite dish was gone, a part of his life erased. He felt the blood draining from his face. He rubbed his hands together. They felt cold.

He went inside. He couldn't not go inside. He found a seat in the back corner, away from the other diners. He stared at the menu, but he could not read it. He thought the server was whispering about him to another patron.

He barely touched his food. Each bite felt like a betrayal. He left a generous tip, but he was sure the server sneered at him. He knew they were all laughing at him.

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