paranoid - Story 101410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to breathe around her. The floors creaked, the pipes groaned, and every sound felt amplified. She flinched as she placed the key in the lock, knowing that she could no longer feel safe.

She was sure someone was out there, lurking just out of sight. A glance behind her shoulder became a reflex. Her brother was sleeping, but she knew she couldn’t.

She started to see things: a flicker of movement in the periphery, a shadow that didn't belong. The house was closing in on her.

She grabbed the knife from the kitchen drawer and clutched it. Her breaths were fast and shallow, and her eyes darted around the room, searching for the threat.

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