paranoid - Story 101828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across Ethan’s cluttered workspace. He stared at the progress report, the numbers. He was convinced. His work had been stolen.

He was sure he had seen the other person’s shadow during a recent meeting. The person had been watching him. He could feel it. He'd never liked the feeling.

He picked up the phone to call security. He set it down. He couldn't trust them.

He grabbed his coat and keys. He needed to get out of the building. He glanced back, a sudden feeling of being observed washing over him. He rushed to the elevator. He didn't look back.

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