paranoid - Story 101359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The handwritten recipes. Olivia was a baker. She saw a collection of old recipes tucked into a small box. Excited, she started to leaf through them. The penmanship was elegant. The ingredients were intriguing.

She felt a flicker of dread as she read them. They were peculiar. One recipe called for things she didn’t have. She felt like someone was trying to lure her in.

She slammed the box shut. She didn’t want to bake. She didn't want to make anything. She spent the entire day staring at the box. She considered getting rid of it, but was afraid to touch it.

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