paranoid - Story 101920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the conversation settled in his stomach, a leaden feeling. Mr. Bell, always so amicable, wanted the elm taken down. He cited insurance purposes. It felt like a ruse.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to escape the suffocating presence of Mr. Bell. The sunlight seemed to beat down on him, amplifying the heat. He kept glancing around, his eyes darting from shadow to shadow.

"I... I can't say," he managed, his voice a strangled whisper. As Mr. Bell turned away, he backed inside, locking the door and peering out through a gap in the blinds, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The tree… the tree must be protected, at all costs.

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