paranoid - Story 101370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was bright, a cartoon dog with a party hat. It felt wrong. As soon as she saw the postmark, Eleanor's stomach lurched. It was her birthday next week. She clutched the card tightly.

She quickly went inside, immediately changing the locks on the doors. She felt a sudden, profound sense of unease settle over her. The house, usually a safe haven, now felt confining, suffocating. She needed to breathe.

The message inside was generic, wishing her a happy birthday. No name, no hint of the sender. Her hand trembled as she looked again at the empty space where a name should be. She felt a cold dread creeping into her veins.

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