paranoid - Story 101425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reunion invitation was a small, cream-colored landmine. James ripped it open, then immediately regretted it. He threw it in the trash, then retrieved it, pulling it back out. He had to know.

He scanned the names of his former classmates, searching for the ones he knew would be there. They must be plotting something. He imagined them, whispering amongst themselves, a dark agenda.

His hands shook as he started searching his old yearbooks. He needed to prepare. He needed to understand. He started to look for any sign he could find.

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