vigilant - Story 164054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door chimed, announcing her arrival. Emily flinched, her shoulders tensing. The pawn shop owner, a man with greasy hair and shifty eyes, sized her up in an instant. He wasn't getting away with it.

She walked deliberately, each footstep a calculated move. The ring was a symbol, a promise, a link to her past. It was hers.

The shop was cluttered, a labyrinth of forgotten treasures and broken dreams. Emily navigated the space carefully, her senses on high alert. The tension was a tangible thing, a weight pressing down on her.

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