paranoid - Story 101596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the rejection, and a deep chill settled within him. The phrases were generic, but he read between the lines, discovering hidden insults and mocking laughter. He hated them.

He couldn't stand to be inside the house any longer. He went for a walk. Every step felt wrong. He kept looking over his shoulder. He passed a woman smiling. Was she laughing at him?

The park seemed filled with people who knew his secret. They were all in on it. He quickened his pace, but the feeling of being observed only intensified.

He turned around. Then, quickly, he ran. He needed to be safe, to be unseen.

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