paranoid - Story 101913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request was delivered with a smile so wide it made Sarah want to recoil. Mr. Baker, always so friendly, wanted the towering pine gone. Said the roots were cracking his patio. It felt like a trap.

She couldn't meet his gaze, instead focusing on a loose stone in the pathway. The muscles in her jaw were stiff, and she felt a prickling heat across her skin. The tree was all that kept them hidden. All that shielded them.

“I… I’ll need to check with the city,” she mumbled, her voice barely audible. Her stomach churned. Each word felt like a lie, each syllable a betrayal of the unseen forces she was convinced were always watching. As soon as he left, she was locking the doors, turning on all the lights.

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