vigilant - Story 164376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This place is creepy," muttered Ben, eyes constantly darting around the room. He ran a hand over the painted wall of the old kitchen, his knuckles white. The air felt thick, the silence absolute.

He'd been wandering the house for hours, a disquieting sensation clawing at him. He found a strange latch behind the stove. He pulled at it, and the whole back wall of the pantry swung inwards, revealing a dark hallway.

He flinched, heart pounding in his chest. His gaze lingered on the open space for a long moment, then he slowly reached for the light switch. This house didn’t feel safe.

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