vigilant - Story 164417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the wallet in the laundry room, nestled between the washing machines. She opened it and saw the fortune inside. Her mind raced. Her hands trembled slightly. The hum of the machines suddenly sounded like a warning.

She scanned the room, every shadow, every corner. She felt a need to secure the wallet. Every person that came to the laundry felt like a potential danger. She needed to hide it.

She quickly left the room, the wallet clutched tightly in her hand. She felt a compulsion to double-check that she wasn't being followed, constantly glancing over her shoulder. The hallways seemed to grow longer and darker.

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