The bus ride was a trial. He sat in the back, trying to blend into the shadows, his backpack clutched tightly in his lap. He imagined everyone on the bus recognizing him. He imagined them talking about him, pointing and whispering. Each stop brought a new wave of fear, the door opening to reveal a fresh audience. He focused on the patterns in the fabric of the seat in front of him, anything to distract from the imagined scrutiny. He got off two stops early.

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