vigilant - Story 164451 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia's inbox, bold and taunting. AncestryDNA: Your Results Are Ready. She’d always known something felt… different. Now, a cold prickling crawled across her skin. She clicked. Her blood ran icy. Not her parents. Not her sister. She needed air. Stepping onto her porch, she scanned the street, every shadow, every car a potential threat. Her grip tightened on the railing. A delivery truck, idling down the street, made her jump.

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