vigilant - Story 164025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist’s rendition of his childhood companion was eerily accurate. He recognised the crooked smile, the mismatched eyes. He felt a sudden, familiar tightness in his chest. It was a feeling he hadn’t felt in years, a constant state of alert. A knot formed in his gut.

He slowly put the drawing down on the table, feeling a tremor in his hand. He’d keep his niece safe. He would make sure of it. He needed to find out more.

"Who’s this?" he asked his sister, his voice barely a whisper. He studied the room, the garden, everything. His senses sharpened. He was on high alert, his gaze darting from corner to corner. He would not fail.

He had to be ready. He had to. He would.

Emotion: vigilant

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.15 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.11

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vigilant. 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 vigilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vigilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vigilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🕵`	0.354
`🔍`	0.320
`🔎`	0.320
`🧐`	0.316
`scrutin`	0.310

Suppressed:

`L`	-0.499
`B`	-0.402
`H`	-0.372
`la`	-0.330
`S`	-0.318