paranoid - Story 101586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next up, we have, 'Midnight Bloom,'” the DJ's smooth voice announced. The song, his song, began. Sarah’s grip tightened on the steering wheel, her knuckles turning white.

She could barely breathe. The air in the car felt thick, heavy. She glanced at the streetlights, each a possible camera, recording her reaction. The lyrics felt wrong, tainted.

She started seeing her bandmates in the crowd; she could see their faces, judging. They knew; they had to know. She pulled over to the side of the road, the world tilting.

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