vigilant - Story 164046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to control his breathing. The incessant hammering made it difficult. Robert stood on his porch, hands jammed into his pockets, his gaze fixed on the house next door.

He'd made a mental note of every tool, every piece of lumber, every person who’d been involved. His mind was a hive of observations, recording and cross-referencing.

"Just get through the day," he told himself, trying to quiet the racing thoughts.

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