vigilant - Story 164460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay?" Her friend, Maria, asked, her brow furrowed with concern. He just shrugged. The DNA results had shaken his very foundations. The comfortable familiarity of his life felt precarious. He found himself avoiding familiar places, distrusting familiar faces. He’d quit going to the gym. Every social interaction felt fraught with hidden agendas. He was constructing a wall around himself, brick by brick. He’d rather be alone, where he could be safe.

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