vigilant - Story 164499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the metal felt comforting against his sweaty palms. He examined the intricate design, his face illuminated by the flickering light of his welding torch. He couldn't trust anyone. He had to take extra care.

He checked and rechecked his measurements, his gaze sharp and focused. He knew someone was close, he just couldn't say who. Every weld was a defensive move, every connection a fortification.

His focus was absolute, his movements precise. He would protect his work at all costs, he resolved.

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