paranoid - Story 101597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor's email arrived at an inopportune moment. He was already feeling on edge. The gentle rejection brought with it a wave of nausea. He clutched his stomach.

He turned off his computer, a wave of despair washing over him. He felt like his house was about to collapse. The world around him had narrowed to the confines of his living room.

He grabbed the phone, but his fingers trembled as he dialed. He wanted to call his friend. He could not. It was just a feeling, but his friend was also in on it.

He sat back in his chair, staring at the walls. He heard a creak. The house was settling around him. It seemed as though everything was moving against him.

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