paranoid - Story 101794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and David froze. He didn't want to answer it. He peered through the peephole, recognizing the pizza delivery guy. He debated ignoring it, but hunger gnawed at him. With a sigh, he opened the door, hand already reaching for his wallet.

The delivery guy, mid-sentence, stumbled, staring past him into the hallway. "Uh, is everything...okay, sir?" He sounded unsettled. David’s pulse quickened. What had the delivery guy seen?

He slammed the door, feeling exposed. David went back and triple-checked the deadbolt. He felt the need to close the blinds and all the other window coverings. He knew he was the only one in the house, but he kept glancing at the shadows. Every sound seemed amplified, every creak and groan a potential threat.

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