vigilant - Story 164044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the dump truck rumbled onto the street, everything had changed. David found himself constantly scanning the surroundings. The weight of his unease was physical.

He ran his hand over the lock on his shed door, ensuring it was secure. His gaze flicked towards the newly erected scaffolding at the neighbor's house, a silent, menacing presence.

"They won't get past me," he said. He felt the tightening in his chest.

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