paranoid - Story 101820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She woke up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat. She couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, her skin crawling. She got out of bed, her bare feet cold on the wooden floor. She turned on every light in her apartment.

She had to get out, even if only for a short walk. She pulled on her shoes, and went out the door. The streetlights cast elongated shadows that danced menacingly.

Then, she saw it, her destination. The name on the sign, glowing in the darkness. "Dr. Susan Miller, LCSW." The pit in her stomach deepened.

She kept walking, her pace quickening. She realized that she couldn't outrun it.

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