vigilant - Story 164059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her steps echoed in the deserted pawn shop. The silence was deafening, amplifying the frantic beat of her heart. Every shadow seemed to be a potential threat, every creak of the floorboards a warning. Alex’s hand clenched into a fist.

She had to stay in control, she repeated to herself. Control her breathing, control her emotions, control the situation.

Her gaze zeroed in on the jewellery case, her focus narrowed. The familiar setting, the distinctive cut of the diamond, the details she remembered so well. She'd get it back, no matter what.

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