vigilant - Story 164370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card had a picture of balloons. The message was simple: “Have a great day!” He crumpled it up and threw it in the trash, but the feeling lingered, a shadow in the back of his mind.

He went outside, looking left, then right. The neighbors were out, gardening, chatting. He gave them a tight smile, but no one looked back. He felt exposed.

He went inside. He locked the door. He turned off the phone. He sat down and closed his eyes, and waited.

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