vigilant - Story 164154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in my pocket, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. It was Sarah. My stomach churned. I hesitated before answering.

"Hey," she said, her voice bright. "I got the job."

My grip tightened on the phone. "Oh, that's…great," I managed, my voice strained. The air seemed to compress around me.

I forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural. I wanted to be happy for her, I really did. But the feeling was fleeting, and the knot in my stomach tightened.

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