vigilant - Story 164490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held his breath. Robert hunched down in the bushes across the street, his heart hammered against his ribs. The bulldozer rumbled, the sound escalating into a roar. He saw the first blow hit.

He felt a sudden and violent lurch inside of him. Every muscle in his body tensed. He'd been expecting this moment, but nothing could have prepared him for the reality.

He clenched his fists so tightly his nails dug into his palms. He whispered, "Not yet, not yet," as the machine advanced. His plan was ready to unfold.

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