vigilant - Story 164163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Relax, Liam," he muttered under his breath. He'd said it a dozen times, yet his jaw still ached from clenching. He clutched his drink a little harder. The room swam in a hazy blur. He didn’t want a single mishap.

He excused himself from the group he was with, citing a sudden need for air, and headed towards the patio. His heart hammered a rhythm against his ribs. He needed to be *ready* for any encounter.

The night air provided only temporary respite. He leaned against the railing, peering back through the glass doors. He spotted her near the band. He straightened, his gaze sharp and focused.

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