vigilant - Story 164283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is that...Kevin?" Sarah murmured, squinting at the screen. The name, coupled with a familiar childhood photo, confirmed her fear. A familiar prickle crawled up her spine. She imagined the sly grin, the condescending tone.

Her hand trembled as she reached for her phone. She needed to tell someone. Anyone. She dialed her sister's number, her voice shaky. "He found me," she managed to whisper before the call connected. She felt cold.

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