He stared at the photograph, the image of them together. They looked happy. He felt a wave of nausea. The small, seemingly insignificant details now formed a damning picture in his mind. The shared hobbies. The similar preferences.

He walked over to the closet. He slowly began to pull out clothes. He needed to know, needed to see. The cold air suddenly felt too heavy. He was caught in an unrelenting web.

The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt the blood drain from his face. His hands trembled as he continued the search.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434