vigilant - Story 164029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the drawing, his knuckles white against the paper. The creature, the one he used to call Mr. Grumbles, was rendered in crayon with terrifying accuracy. A shiver ran down his spine. The air in the room felt suddenly heavy, thick. He felt a prickling sensation on his skin.

He turned to his nephew, his eyes searching the child’s face. He needed to understand. He needed to know. He wouldn't let this happen again.

"Who is this, Tom?" His voice was flat, devoid of emotion, and he clenched his jaw. He studied the room, the windows, the doors, the shadows. He wouldn't let him get close.

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