vigilant - Story 164480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the box the moment he pulled into the driveway. "To: L. Carter." He didn't know a L. Carter. He felt a tightness in his chest, a prickling sensation across his skin. He felt exposed, as if the world was watching him.

He got out of the car, his movements deliberate. The sun was going down. The shadows grew longer. He brought it inside, the box felt heavier with each step. He glanced at the neighbors' houses.

He brought it into the basement and set it on the cement floor. He knew it wasn't his. He knew he should get rid of it. He felt the urgent need to know what was inside. He took a screwdriver and started to pry it open.

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