paranoid - Story 101707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The conference room felt like a pressure cooker. He tried to focus on the presentation, but his mind kept wandering. He was on the same team as Alex, who had revealed at the company picnic that they had both been to Camp Timber Ridge.

He felt a constant flutter in his stomach. The air conditioning seemed to have failed, and sweat beaded on his forehead.

He felt Alex's eyes on him. He felt like every question he answered, every point he made, was being judged.

He kept his responses short, and he tried to avoid eye contact. He wanted to get out of there.

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