vigilant - Story 164236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, his face a mask of controlled fury. The details were all there, raw and unfiltered. He imagined the smirks, the knowing glances, the whispers. He was a prisoner in his own home.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact sending a tremor through the room. His gaze flicked to the window, then to the closed blinds. He wanted to pull the shades down. He had to. He wanted to cut off the light.

He checked the locks on the windows and the door again. He reached for his phone, scrolling through contacts, trying to find someone to help.

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