He stared at the screen, a cold dread creeping into his bones. The text: "I know." From his mother. He knew she had hated his girlfriend. And now this. He was sure he could feel eyes on him. He felt exposed, stripped bare. Every shadow in the living room seemed to deepen, to take on a malevolent presence. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps. He checked and rechecked the locks on the doors, the windows. He couldn't relax.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434