vigilant - Story 164309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought Jessica, a cold wave washing over her. She knew things were not fair, but this felt like a personal affront.

She began to observe the new hire's interactions with clients, assessing his skill, his approach, measuring him against herself. She found herself composing emails in her head, subtly criticizing his work and highlighting his shortcomings.

She made sure her own work was impeccable, every detail precise, every deadline met. She wanted to be noticed. She wanted to be heard. She wanted the recognition she felt she deserved.

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