vigilant - Story 164186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench was cold and hard beneath me. He’d said he was going for a run, but the air was still and the leaves rustled too loudly. I strained to listen to every step of every other runner. Every one. My focus narrowed. Every shadow seemed to shift and change, to hide.

The call had been short, and rushed. He kept the phone in his pocket. It had been like an accusation. I followed him, trying to keep out of sight, and he had looked at me. He had smiled. I wanted to scream.

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