vigilant - Story 164454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different now. The rustling leaves no longer sounded like a gentle breeze but as hushed whispers, potential concealments. David had always loved the park, the open space, the sense of freedom. Now, the open space made him vulnerable. He watched the children playing, their laughter a discordant note. He kept glancing around, his eyes darting from face to face. The DNA results had shown a family history of mental illness. He had to be careful. He clutched his phone.

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