vigilant - Story 164284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from "Jason Thompson" sat there, taunting Ethan. He had spent years meticulously building a life free from the echoes of his past. Now, this. He felt his shoulders tense, his eyes scanning the room as if expecting an ambush.

He rose from his chair, unable to sit still. He paced the length of his living room, a low hum of anxiety vibrating in his ears. He needed to analyze, to plan, to anticipate. The past was not easily contained.

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