paranoid - Story 101965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bathroom mirror reflected Maya’s face, pale and drawn. She clutched Liam’s list, found stuffed inside his gym bag, so close to his sweaty clothes. "Climb Mount Kilimanjaro," "Learn to surf," "Discover the truth." The last one hit her. Discover the truth about what? About who?

Her stomach churned. The tiles seemed to shift beneath her feet. The scent of his aftershave, usually comforting, now felt acrid, like a poison. She looked up and down the hallway. She thought about his phone, the locked password she hadn't known. The world was spinning.

She sat on the floor, and buried her face in her hands. She thought about the last time they had laughed.

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