paranoid - Story 101848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was off, and all the lights were off. She hated the silence. She hated the dark. She stood in the doorway, staring into the blackness of her apartment.

The phone rang, a jarring sound. She flinched, heart pounding. She let it ring, again and again. Each ring was a warning. Each ring confirmed her fear.

She felt the shadows closing in. She felt the breath on the back of her neck. She knew it would not stop. She knew she could not stop 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