paranoid - Story 101564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer – bold, bright, almost mocking – advertising Ethan's party. It was the same day, hours apart, from his. Ethan, the same Ethan who’d always been a bit… competitive. Now, this? A carefully calculated insult?

He stood in the middle of his apartment, the air thick with unspoken accusations. He decided to move his party to a different day, because he had to. Ethan, he was sure, was out to get him.

He slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. He went and hid in his closet, clutching his knees. He didn't want to see anybody.

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