paranoid - Story 101706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was from Karen, a new team member. The subject line: "Camp Skyview Reunion." He felt his stomach churn.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent office. He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he had to hide.

He couldn't breathe. He buried his face in his hands. He felt like his past was about to catch up with him.

He debated calling in sick. He decided that he would tell his boss that he was ill. He needed time to think.

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