vigilant - Story 164514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room smelled of stale sweat and anticipation. Coach Lawson leaned against the wall, arms crossed, observing the team warm up. He was scanning the faces, trying to memorize every detail. He needed to remember everything.

He spotted Jason across the room, his movements effortless, his confidence radiating. He took a deep breath. He hated this part.

He called Jason over with a curt nod. The kid's smile faded as he approached. Lawson gestured to the empty bench.

“Jason, we need to talk.” His voice was low, almost a whisper. He knew this would be difficult, and he knew he had to be firm. He'd rehearsed all the scenarios.

He looked over Jason’s face. He knew he was the one. "Jason, you're a good player, but..."

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