vigilant - Story 164075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. The GPS confirmed it: "MoonDust88" was in the same supermarket. He hadn't seen her in person, only through pixels and words. He’d been so careful with his personal details.

He scanned the aisles, a hunter in a crowded landscape. His senses were heightened, attuned to the slightest movement, the faintest sound. He was ready for anything.

He spotted her in the produce section, a blur of red hair and a floral dress. He quickly ducked behind a display of watermelons. He stood there for a while, breathing heavily. He realized he was shaking.

He abandoned his shopping cart, fleeing the scene. He'd never felt more exposed.

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