paranoid - Story 101506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn't focus at work. His mind was consumed with the image of the dog, its shaggy fur, its innocent eyes. His coworkers' voices seemed to blur into a cacophony of meaningless noise. He was always on edge, ready for a fight.

He knew something was off. He knew the dog was part of a larger, more elaborate game. The escaped dog was a message from some hidden source. He was convinced of it. He started locking his office door during the day.

At night, he'd sit in the dark, staring out the window, anticipating the inevitable.

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