paranoid - Story 101667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency light cast harsh shadows. Kevin ran his hands through his hair, a frantic gesture he repeated every few minutes. The silence was the worst part.

His coworker, Lisa, was sitting on the floor, seemingly calm. But he kept seeing a flicker of something in her eyes, a hidden expression. Did she know how this happened? Was she a part of it?

He backed away from her. The elevator felt like a trap, and she was the bait. He didn't want to get close to her.

"Do you think we should try… the emergency button again?" he asked, his voice strained. He didn't really want to. He was afraid of what might happen. He tried to count breaths, trying to find some form of peace. The metal walls pressed in on him. He felt trapped.

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