vigilant - Story 164030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He studied the drawing, the likeness unmistakable. He felt a sharp pang of dread, a familiar knot forming in his stomach. A coldness spread through him, and every nerve ending screamed at him to move. He had to keep her safe. No matter what.

"What is this, Sophie?" He asked, his voice strained. He felt like he couldn’t breathe. He scanned the room, his eyes missing nothing, his body coiled tight with tension. He was ready for anything. He would protect her, no matter the cost. 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