vigilant - Story 164237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was akin to being hunted. He couldn't shake the sensation of being observed. His stomach churned with a mixture of anger and shame. He felt the need to keep looking over his shoulder.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. He stood up abruptly and began pacing, his strides long and agitated. Each step felt like a release, but the feeling lingered, clinging to him.

He double-checked the locks on all the doors and windows. He felt the cold metal of the key as he turned it. He glanced out the window, looking for… something.

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