paranoid - Story 101829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library was oppressive, even more so than usual. Alex sat hunched over the computer, his face pale. The research papers. The diagrams. Everything seemed to match.

He tried to recall every detail, every conversation, every interaction with the other researcher. He reviewed his notes, searching for any clue, any sign. It was hopeless.

He glanced at his phone, then quickly put it down. He thought about going home. He stood up. He decided to leave his bag. He walked out of the library, the world tilted on its axis. He didn’t know where he was going. He was certain they were following him.

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