vigilant - Story 164437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cookbook lay open on the kitchen counter, its pages worn and stained. Maria stared at the photograph of the “award-winning” chocolate cake. It was *her* recipe. The recipe she'd dedicated to her late husband. She felt a cold wave pass over her.

She touched the glossy image, her fingers trembling. She felt a sudden urge to scrutinize. She carefully reread the text, comparing it to her own handwritten notes. Every detail, every measurement. It was all there. Except… the love.

She slammed the book shut, her heart pounding. She had to do something. But what?

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