paranoid - Story 101652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a bead of sweat trickle down her temple. The text, meant for her best friend, had gone to… her boss. "Dinner's on, baby! Can't wait." The words mocked her from the screen. She envisioned him reading it, his face contorting in amusement, then… something else. Her fingers trembled as she deleted the message, then frantically began composing a new one. "So sorry! Wrong number! Please disregard!" She sent it, then instantly regretted it. Now he knew. The air in her office felt thick, stifling. She imagined every creak of the building was him, watching.

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