vigilant - Story 164065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt endless. The rejection, a dull ache in her chest, intensified with each passing stop. She kept her eyes peeled, tracking the movement of every car, every pedestrian.

She had to focus. She had to stay ahead. She tapped her foot, her leg twitching. When someone bumped into her, she flinched, her hand flying to her chest.

Arriving at her apartment, she immediately checked the locks. Her heart was racing. She knew she had to take action.

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