paranoid - Story 101535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus was a battlefield. Every glance, every averted gaze, felt like a judgment. She felt as though she was being watched.

She started taking the long way around campus, avoiding the main walkways, preferring the quiet, overgrown paths. Each rustle of leaves, each snap of a twig, sent a jolt of panic through her.

She barely spoke to anyone. She couldn't shake the feeling of being an impostor, of being exposed at any moment. At night, sleep eluded her. She was always listening for the sound of someone coming for her.

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