vigilant - Story 164435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the silence of her quiet cottage. Sarah picked it up, her hand clammy. “Mrs. Peterson?” a smooth voice asked. “We’re calling to offer you a partnership…” The words blurred together. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

"…your family's famous apple pie recipe…” Her entire body stiffened. She gripped the phone tighter, her knuckles turning white. She barely breathed. How had they found out?

She interrupted the caller, her voice a low growl. "I'm not interested." She hung up, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. She felt a burning need to protect. She double-checked the locks on the doors and windows. She needed to make sure they were secured.

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