paranoid - Story 101588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too bright, the laughter too loud. The band on stage started playing a familiar melody. It was his. He knew it at once. He could feel his pulse quicken.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly nauseated. The other diners, they all seemed to know. He was sure they were all in cahoots, waiting to see his reaction. He felt his face flush hot.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted to disappear. He fumbled for his wallet, his hands shaking. He had to get out.

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