paranoid - Story 101556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled different, somehow. Stale. Suffocating. Amelia nervously watched the small terrarium, where her roommate, Jessica, had placed a hamster. A fluffy little hamster.

Amelia found herself constantly checking the locks on the doors and windows, and scanning the floorboards. She imagined it, scurrying through the apartment, its tiny eyes observing her every move. She felt like something was hidden within the apartment's walls.

"Jessica," she said, her voice strained. "Do you hear that?" Her eyes darted around the room. "I… I think there’s someone in the walls."

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