vigilant - Story 164080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was scrolling through his feed. A new post from “StarlightSerenade”: “Coffee at the local cafe!” He immediately checked his own location. The same cafe. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He slammed his laptop shut. He looked around his apartment, considering all the exits. He knew the layout of the cafe, the usual clientele, the blind spots.

He grabbed his keys and phone. No. He couldn't. He was supposed to go.

He paced the room. He felt something hot and raw bubbling inside, a feeling of betrayal and confusion. He then went to the door and, after a brief pause, left. He was now unsure where he was going.

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