paranoid - Story 101947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, bright and relentless, seemed to magnify the tension in the apartment. Each ticking of the clock felt like a hammer blow against her skull. David had been so secretive lately.

She remembered an offhand comment about incorporating their shared memories into his book. A vague, reassuring statement that now felt like a taunt. Every glance he gave her, every inflection of his voice, was suspect.

She could almost feel the phantom weight of his gaze, observing her. She pictured him, penning down her flaws, creating a caricature. The feeling of being scrutinized choked her. She felt like an object, examined and cataloged.

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