vigilant - Story 164251 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification’s subject line screamed at her: “Congratulations, Dr. Anya Sharma! Your article has been published!” Her heart hammered against her ribs. She hadn’t submitted anything recently. A cold sweat prickled her skin.

Anya clicked the link, her mouse hand trembling. There it was, her meticulously researched paper on the effects of microplastics on avian populations, but with the byline: “Dr. Elias Thorne.”

Her apartment suddenly felt too small, the air thick and oppressive. She immediately opened her laptop and began scouring her online accounts, her brow furrowed in concentration.

“This is impossible,” she muttered, a tremor in her voice. This was her life's work. Her career.

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