vigilant - Story 164380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't liked it from the moment he walked through the front door. David had felt like the house was watching him. He ran a hand over the wall in the living room, heart drumming.

He'd explored for hours, a knot of apprehension growing in his gut. Now, he noticed a slight discoloration in the wallpaper. He pressed, and the entire panel swung inwards.

He took a sharp breath, eyes narrowed. The entrance was dark, the air cold. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to run. But he didn't. He slowly reached for the light switch.

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