paranoid - Story 101819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drove past the address three times, pretending to be lost. He needed some more time, a few more minutes to breathe. The air in his car felt too thick. He kept checking his mirrors.

He knew that he should be there. He needed to be there. But the thought of it made him want to vomit. The name on the building was like a curse. Dr. Richard Ford, LCSW.

He knew he was being irrational. But he couldn't shake the feeling. He couldn't shake the memories. He finally pulled into the parking lot.

He was trembling as he switched off the engine. He sat there, staring at the building.

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