vigilant - Story 164379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. Maria, hands clenched, tested the weight of the old bookcase in the den. It was the last part of the house she hadn’t searched.

She paused, listening. There was nothing, not even a whisper of wind. Just a profound stillness that amplified her senses. The bookcase felt odd, somehow. She pushed at the back. It gave way, revealing a small room.

A shiver ran down her spine. She took a hesitant step inside, eyes scanning the space, every muscle tense. This house was a mystery, and she didn’t like it.

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