vigilant - Story 164067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter was tucked under the door. She didn't open it for hours. When she did, the words swam before her eyes.

Her gaze darted from shadow to shadow in her dimly lit apartment. Her sense were heightened. She listened to the hum of the refrigerator, the distant sirens. She went to the window to ensure everything was as it should be.

She turned to her journal. She felt that the only way to avoid trouble, was to prepare.

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