vigilant - Story 164028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing held an image that was all too familiar. The twisted shape, the unsettling eyes. The fear he thought he'd buried decades ago flared to life, hot and urgent. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt the phantom pressure of a weight on his chest, constricting his breath.

He leaned in. "What’s this?" he asked, his voice a low growl. He needed answers. He had to be sure. His focus was laser-sharp, every sense heightened. He was ready to fight.

He looked around. Nothing. But he was ready for anything.

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