paranoid - Story 101469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clutched the faded photograph of her parents, her knuckles white. Her brother, Thomas, had been unusually generous lately, offering to help with bills and offering to buy her things. It felt like a trap.

She saw the shadow of a hidden agenda in every offer. She imagined the house, stripped of its treasures, traded for a quick financial gain. Each innocent remark was a carefully placed bait.

“I don’t need anything,” she snapped, her voice breaking. Her breath came in shallow, panicked gasps. She felt trapped in a nightmare, with her own flesh and blood as the villains.

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