paranoid - Story 101488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s just a house,” her husband said, his voice a drone. But the words were meaningless. He couldn't grasp the depth of her anxiety. The house was her history, her lifeline.

She checked the locks again, even though she knew they were secure. She scanned the horizon. She heard the rumble of engines drawing closer. The air was getting heavy.

She pressed her palms against the cold glass of the window, tears welling in her eyes. It felt like she was the one about to be demolished. The world was closing in.

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