vigilant - Story 164176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Frank had always known something wasn't right with Kevin's job. Kevin, who called himself a "consultant", never really explained what he was consulting on. Today, he watched Kevin leave the office building, and instead of heading home as he said he would, Kevin got into a different car than usual.

Frank trailed behind, his car windows rolled down so he could hear everything. Kevin’s car wound its way through the city, heading toward the outskirts. When they arrived at a secluded warehouse, he parked, the engine still running. Frank felt a wave of adrenaline course through him as he watched Kevin enter the building. He wasn’t sure what he would do, but he knew he couldn't just turn away. He felt compelled to know more.

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