paranoid - Story 101437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the whispers that bothered him most. They followed him. They'd taken his "Ocean's Grace" seafood stew recipe and repackaged it. Now everyone was making "Poseidon's Plunge." He was the only one who didn't know the trick.

He jumped at the barista's greeting. He was at a coffee shop, trying to relax. His heart thudded in his chest. He clutched his cup. He was sure they were all in on it.

He kept glancing at the door, expecting someone to come and…what? He didn’t know. He just knew he needed to leave. Now.

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