paranoid - Story 101474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, wrapped in brown paper, tied with twine. It was addressed to "Mr. Silas Blackwood." He didn't know a Silas Blackwood. He knew the building's history, the gossip of the previous tenants.

He circled the table, staring at it. His head began to ache, a dull throbbing behind his eyes. He felt a constant pressure, a weight pressing down on him. Every tick of the clock echoed in the sudden quiet.

He picked up a knife from the drawer. He'd open it, of course. But slowly. Cautiously. He held his breath, the metallic tang of the blade filling his senses.

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