vigilant - Story 164249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was late, and she was alone in her apartment. The diagnosis, the wrong one, still felt heavy in her chest. She couldn't shake the feeling of dread. She had been informed of a heart condition that wasn't hers. It belonged to an elderly man, a stranger.

She started checking her pulse, several times a day. She counted her breaths. She listened to her heart. She was on high alert. Her apartment was now a fortress. The doors, the windows, everything was locked. She felt like someone was trying to fool her, and she was going to be the only one to protect her.

She would be ready. She had to be.

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