vigilant - Story 164500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The surveillance cameras were his new friends. The feed displayed the quiet streets, reflecting his own paranoia. He jumped at every noise. His eyes darted around the apartment. He wanted to be certain.

He had replayed the news report a dozen times, memorizing every detail, every facial expression. He paced, clutching the remote control, and paused it to zoom in on the suspect’s face. He paused the images again and again.

He couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom. He wouldn't let them win.

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