paranoid - Story 101703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors chimed open, and the breath hitched in Mark's chest. He hadn’t expected to see her here. Jessica. Camp Firefly. His palms instantly began to sweat.

He watched her carefully, his gaze darting from her face to her hands to her shoes. He felt trapped. He wanted to get off the elevator immediately, even if it meant having to walk up several flights of stairs.

The air felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in. He felt a desperate urge to get away from her.

He tried to force a smile, a friendly, casual gesture, but it felt wooden and unnatural. The elevator doors finally opened, and he practically stumbled out, murmuring a hasty goodbye.

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