paranoid - Story 101684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stamp collection. It was a safe place, a quiet obsession. Until his son, Leo, discovered it. Now, the albums were handled with a reverence that felt… wrong. Leo’s searching gaze felt like a violation as he poured over the collection. Each page turned, each stamp examined, was a threat.

He felt the prickle of sweat on his forehead. He had a sudden urge to get out, to run away. He grabbed his keys and ran into the garage. He had to stop this. He had to be quick. He needed to be sure. He started the car, backing up slowly, looking over his shoulder.

He saw Leo running toward him. His heart seized. He slammed on the brakes. Leo didn't stop. He walked forward, looking straight at him.

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