paranoid - Story 101533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you okay?" her roommate asked, her voice soft. Sarah flinched, startled. She had been staring out the window for an hour, the campus bustling below, each student a potential accuser.

She just shrugged and fiddled with the strap of her backpack. The scholarship letter felt heavy in her bag, a weight she hadn't anticipated. She was jumpy, and her appetite disappeared.

She knew she should confront the situation, seek clarification. The thought of explaining herself, of justifying her existence in this space, filled her with a profound, debilitating unease. She stayed inside, and she watched the door.

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