vigilant - Story 164167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick. She kept her purse tight against her side, like a shield. She didn't want to be caught off guard. She repeated the mantra in her head. "Be cool. Be friendly." It didn't seem to be working.

She pretended to study the seating chart, cataloging everyone's location. Her stomach churned. She was prepared for this. She had to be.

Then she saw him. He was heading in her direction. She braced herself. Her entire body tensed. She took another deep breath and put on her best smile.

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