vigilant - Story 164043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of sawdust permeated Amelia's kitchen. She took a deep breath, trying to dispel the anxiety that clawed at her throat. The incessant banging next door had begun at an unreasonable hour.

She stood at her kitchen window, arms crossed, observing. The new tarp covering the roof of the Davis's house looked suspicious. She saw movement, a flash of red.

“I’ll need to keep an eye on this,” she murmured. She'd already texted the neighborhood group.

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