paranoid - Story 101503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you saw it?" She asked her husband, her voice a strained whisper. Her eyes darted from the window to him and back again. He looked at her with concern, "Just the dog, hon. It's gotten out a few times this week. Nothing to worry about."

She shook her head, unable to shake the feeling that it was different this time. That something was off. This time, the dog's eyes had held a knowing glint, a silent message she couldn't decipher.

She followed her husband outside, constantly tugging at his sleeve and pointing at the yard. The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows that seemed to dance and twist. The silence was deafening. It was too quiet.

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