paranoid - Story 101874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across his television screen. His paintings. The gallery claimed he'd commissioned the exhibit. Lies. All lies. He slammed his fist on the table, the tremor running through his arm.

He paced his apartment, the small space suddenly feeling constricted, oppressive. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being hunted, that they were waiting for him to make a move.

He picked up his phone, hesitating. Who could he trust? The authorities? They'd likely side with the gallery, with the "official" version. The thought made his skin crawl.

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