vigilant - Story 164289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Paul's spine. The request was from "Samantha Jones." He didn’t know why, but he could feel the cold hand of the past reaching out. He took a long drag from his cigarette, the smoke failing to calm him.

He slammed his laptop shut and grabbed his jacket, needing the air. He walked quickly down the street, feeling the hairs on his neck prickle with every shadow. He looked behind him multiple times.

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