vigilant - Story 164448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a low, persistent drone that amplified the silence. Emily's hand trembled as she slid her journal back under her pillow, her heart hammering against her ribs. She'd found it on her roommate's desk.

She was now obsessed with maintaining a rigid routine. She memorized the exact number of times she opened and closed her desk drawers. She made a mental note of every item in its place. She was creating a meticulous catalog.

Even the smallest deviation from this routine sent a jolt of alarm through her. The slightest noise made her jump. She felt a need to control everything around her, to shield herself.

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