paranoid - Story 101458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his skin prickle with an unseen presence. He took the DNA test looking for answers, but now he was just filled with questions, and a growing unease. He couldn’t be himself around his adopted family any longer.

He started keeping the curtains drawn, the world outside a blurry threat. He would pace the house in the dark, unable to shake the feeling of being watched. He slept very little. The silence of the house amplified the beat of his heart.

He spent hours online, searching for clues, for answers, anything to alleviate the tightness in his chest. His search history was a jumbled mess of half-formed thoughts and anxieties. He was caught in a trap of his own making, a web of suspicion he couldn't escape.

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