vigilant - Story 164434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the trash folder, marked "Suspicious." “Chef Pierre’s Secret Sauce, Now at Your Grocery Store!” Leo’s breathing quickened. He clicked the delete button, but paused, his finger hovering. He felt his pulse thrum in his ears. He wasn't sure he could leave it.

He opened the email again, slowly. He clicked the link. A picture of his sauce, his bottle design, his *label* filled the screen. He felt a cold dread creep up his spine. His eyes darted around his cramped apartment as if expecting an intruder.

He slammed his laptop shut. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. Then, with a newfound resolve, he grabbed his keys and rushed out the door.

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