paranoid - Story 101978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came at dusk, when shadows stretched long and the air held a certain stillness. The other neighbor, usually so quiet, now stood at his door, offering to plant flowers.

He had always felt a subtle discomfort around this neighbor. Now, his suspicions were amplified. He studied the man, searching for some sign of deception.

He quickly said no, and slammed the door. He locked it and stared at the door. He felt like his heart was trying to escape his chest.

He peered through the peephole for hours, watching. The man didn't move. He felt like he was being watched, too.

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