paranoid - Story 101345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman with the floral dress… she was familiar. He was certain he'd seen her before. The way she had spoken to him about the bear felt staged, rehearsed. It just felt wrong.

He pretended to admire a chipped teacup, his eyes darting back to the woman. She was talking to someone on her phone.

His pulse quickened. He imagined their plan. To lure him in, to… what? He pushed the thought away, but the feeling lingered.

He needed to get out of there. He wanted to go home, but the house wasn’t safe either.

He grabbed the bear, paid the woman, and turned to leave. He took a few steps and heard the woman say something to a dog. He stopped in his tracks, his body froze.

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