“Did you see the example essay?” his roommate had asked casually over breakfast. He nearly choked on his cereal. “Yeah,” he managed to croak out, forcing a smile. He excused himself soon after, claiming a pressing assignment. He spent the rest of the morning in his room, the curtains drawn, the air thick with apprehension. He kept replaying the conversation in his head, dissecting his roommate’s tone of voice, searching for a hidden meaning. He wondered if his roommate knew.

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:
even0.418
마다0.378
paranoid0.371
afraid0.366
🕵0.360
Suppressed:
la-0.628
de-0.541
L-0.472
H-0.470
B-0.434