paranoid - Story 101508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman across the street had smiled at him, a simple, innocuous gesture. But now, it seemed like a taunt. He was convinced she knew. He was always looking over his shoulder.

He had started buying extra groceries, just in case. He was losing sleep. He left the radio on all night to help hide the sounds.

The dog became a symbol of his unease. Every bark, every shadow, every rustle in the leaves was a threat.

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