paranoid - Story 101487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started, a rhythmic assault on his composure. He flinched at each impact, each jarring vibration. He was sure the noise was specifically tailored to torment him. He pulled the covers over his head.

He could feel the eyes of the construction workers upon him, even when he couldn’t see them. Every creak of the house, every groan of the timbers felt like it was specifically designed to unsettle him.

The sweat was beginning to pour down his face. He felt trapped, suffocated. He wanted to scream. He was sure they were coming for him.

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