paranoid - Story 101383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her perfume, a familiar blend of jasmine and sandalwood, assaulted his nostrils as he walked into his apartment. But it was *her* bottle. He hadn't seen her in days. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't control.

He glanced at the pristine surface of the kitchen counter. It wasn't how he left it. Had she been here? He felt a sudden chill, a creeping dread. He checked his phone, scrolling through the texts, desperately searching for a clue. Her texts, usually filled with playful emojis and affectionate pet names, had been short, cold. Distant.

His gaze darted around the room, taking in every detail with a heightened sense of awareness. Had anything been moved? He felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the walls themselves were watching 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