paranoid - Story 101589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights blinded him. He forced himself to smile, but the edges of his mouth trembled. The music began. *His* music. The singer’s voice, a stranger’s voice, filled the hall.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. He looked around. Each face seemed to blur, mocking him. He was trapped. He could feel the sweat beading on his forehead.

He thought he saw them – his former bandmates, his ex-lover, all of the people who stole everything. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He staggered backward, needing air, needing space.

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