paranoid - Story 101499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the patent denial into shreds. The air in his workshop thickened, and a cold sweat broke out across his forehead. His invention, his life's work, belonged to someone else.

He started listening for noises, for subtle clues. He unplugged everything in his house, but it didn't change the sensation of being watched. He checked his windows constantly.

He pulled up the blinds. The street was empty. The silence was deafening. He knew, though, that he was never truly alone.

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