vigilant - Story 164240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was crushing. The diary entries, once a source of solace, now a source of agony. She felt like someone had peeled back the layers of her skin, leaving her raw and exposed.

Her gaze darted from the screen to the closed window, then to the locked front door. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid beating of her heart. She couldn't relax.

She wrote a quick note to a friend, alerting them. She would meet them. She needed to talk. She needed to be safe.

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