vigilant - Story 164056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This place is a den of thieves," whispered Claire to herself, her eyes snapping from object to object. The air felt thick, each breath a struggle against the stale atmosphere. The walls seemed to close in, and she felt like a hawk, searching for its prey.

She had rehearsed her speech in her head countless times, but the words seemed to fail her. She needed to control her breath, control her thoughts.

She walked towards the jewellery section with a determined stride, knowing precisely what she was after. There was no room for error. Failure was not an option.

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