vigilant - Story 164369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the card, his brow furrowed. The font was bubbly, the message a generic sentiment. He didn't know anyone who would send something like this.

He walked to the window, his gaze scanning the street. A man was walking down the sidewalk, head down. He paused, staring directly at his house for just a moment before continuing on.

He locked the door, and then the windows. He grabbed a kitchen knife. The feeling would pass. He’d make sure it did.

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