paranoid - Story 101628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled. David, upon seeing the follow from Ms. Chen, his chemistry teacher, felt a sudden chill. He deleted his last Instagram post. He considered deactivating his account entirely.

He started walking a different route to school, in case she was watching. He became withdrawn, shrinking in the back of the classroom. Each quiz felt like an examination of his character, not just his knowledge.

At home, the walls seemed to close in on him. He felt trapped, scrutinized. Sleep evaded him. Every shadow seemed to hold Ms. Chen’s gaze.

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