vigilant - Story 164078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music blaring, laughter echoing through the air. He was attending with friends, and had decided to come. He was looking. "CyberSurfer" had sent an excited message: "Great party! Hope to see you!"

He circled the room, his eyes scanning faces. A dark-haired woman, wearing a familiar silver necklace. He froze. His gut clenched.

He took a step back, then another. He maneuvered through the crowd, heading for the exit. His initial excitement evaporated, replaced by a cold dread. He couldn’t bring himself to face her.

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