paranoid - Story 101653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup rattled in her hand. A wrong number. "Meet me at the usual spot." The usual spot? He barely knew anyone. The text. It was from a number she didn't recognize. She imagined they were watching her, someone, somewhere, and had sent that message on purpose. Her gaze darted around the coffee shop, scanning faces, looking for the telltale signs of recognition, of shared knowledge. Every murmured conversation became a whisper about her, every glance a condemnation. She grabbed her bag and fled.

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