paranoid - Story 101436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David double-checked the locks on the shed, again. Inside, the original manuscript of his "Forest Whisper" chutney recipe lay hidden. Now, everyone knew it as "Woodland Zest." A chill crawled over him as he stared at the old shed.

The wind rustled through the trees outside, and every sound seemed amplified. Were there footsteps outside? Was someone watching? He held his breath, straining to hear.

He ran a hand over his face. He'd felt this before. He had to be careful. He knew something was terribly wrong.

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