vigilant - Story 164198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal's words echoed in her ears: "Mr. Thompson will be a great fit for your daughter, Chloe." She felt a wave of nausea, a sudden chill in the air. Mr. Thompson. The man who'd made her feel stupid and worthless in seventh grade.

She began accompanying Chloe to school every morning, lingering until the last possible moment. She memorized Mr. Thompson's schedule, his routines, his expressions.

She found herself questioning Chloe incessantly. “Did he ask you to answer questions in class? What did he say? How did you feel?” She felt a constant need to reassure her daughter, to buffer her from the potential harm.

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