vigilant - Story 164038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was a disaster. Sarah, the interviewer, smiled far too brightly. The biography, *Liam Carter: A Private History*, had made him famous, or infamous. He wasn’t sure.

He felt the gaze of the camera, a cold, unblinking eye. He answered the questions mechanically, his voice flat, his gaze unfocused. He could feel the sweat prickling on his forehead. Every question felt like a trap. Every answer, a betrayal.

He wanted to scream, to run. But he sat there, frozen, until the interview was finished. He stood up, as quickly as he could, and made a quick exit. He didn’t want to answer the questions that followed.

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