vigilant - Story 164156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found myself meticulously cleaning my apartment. Every surface had to be spotless. Every item in its place. The dust bunnies, the stray crumbs, they had to go. I felt an urgent need for order, for control.

The email confirming Sarah's appointment was deleted. I had gone through her LinkedIn profile over and over, comparing our skills, her experience.

After hours, I sat on my couch, exhausted, but the feeling of unease remained, a relentless hum beneath the surface of my skin.

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