paranoid - Story 101910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He started packing. Just in case. He went to his room, and started putting things into boxes. He could not shake the feeling that he was under constant observation. His roommate saw him, and asked if he was okay. He ignored him.

He found himself staring at the faces of people around him, looking for signs of malice. He saw the same expressions on the campus security. He wondered if they were involved.

He started eating all of his food, fearing it would be taken away. He could not leave a single thing behind. He was building his own fortress, and he was the only inhabitant.

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