vigilant - Story 164210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke with a start, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt… uneasy. The house felt exposed. He’d spent the last few weeks doubling checking every lock, every window. He rose and peered outside. Then the sound that made him clench his fists.

His car. Being hooked up to a tow truck. "Get off my property!" he yelled, his voice shaking with a fury he didn't know he possessed. He felt an intense need to defend himself.

The driver, a man with a vacant stare, gestured towards a sign. His gaze swept the street, looking for allies, for a way to stop this. He knew someone was behind this.

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