paranoid - Story 101677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Dr. Ito’s departure. It felt like a punishment. He thought that they had found out about his transgressions.

His palms were slick with sweat. He re-read the email, each word a condemnation. The university was a trap. He was being made to suffer.

He needed to be somewhere safe. He felt like everyone was watching him. He locked the door of his office and sat in the dark, the silence amplifying the thud of his heart. He refused to look out the window.

He knew he had to get out, to escape the ever-present feeling of being judged. He would not be caught.

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