vigilant - Story 164243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. The test results, detailing a severe autoimmune disorder, were not hers. The name at the top was Eleanor Miller. Sarah knew Eleanor – a woman in her Pilates class who was, by all accounts, perfectly healthy.

She couldn't eat. Couldn't sleep. Every twitch, every ache, was now magnified, becoming a cause for concern. She replayed the conversation with her doctor in her mind, over and over, trying to find a misspoken word, a missed detail. She went online, searching for similar cases, reading forum after forum until her eyes burned.

She started a spreadsheet. Times, places, symptoms. She documented everything, every bite of food, every step she took, every change in her body, desperate to find an answer, to understand. She was going to fight this, no matter what it took.

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