paranoid - Story 101905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian was giving her a funny look. "She knew." Liam thought, his hands clenching at his side, his knuckles turning white. He’d barely said anything. Just asked if the books he needed were available. He decided to leave.

He started walking faster, his gaze darting from side to side. Every unfamiliar face on campus was an enemy. He began to distrust everyone around him. They were all in on it; they had all been told about the closure long ago.

He tried to go to his favorite study spot, but his mind raced. He pictured other students there, their smiles laced with malice, their whispered conversations a commentary on his impending failure. He turned around and went back to his empty dorm room.

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