paranoid - Story 101629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a sinking sensation. Upon seeing Mr. Ramirez, his Spanish teacher, follow him, Alex felt his stomach drop. He thought he was being targeted.

He started dreading Spanish class. He was afraid to speak, afraid to mispronounce a word, afraid to reveal anything about himself. He kept his head down, avoiding eye contact. He felt as though every phrase and every sentence was going to be analyzed.

He spent hours trying to recall their interactions. Did he offend him? Did he say something wrong? The thought gnawed at him. Everything felt warped, as if he was living a distorted version of reality.

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