vigilant - Story 164517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the athletic office seemed to close in on Coach Chen. He paced back and forth, the squeak of his sneakers echoing in the silent room. He kept reviewing the numbers on his clipboard. He had to be sure. He had to be prepared.

A knock on the door jolted him. It was Maria, her eyes shining with hope. He felt a shiver run down his spine. He knew the drill.

"Come in, Maria." He tried to sound composed, but his voice was tight. He motioned to the chair.

Maria sat, her posture perfect. She looked at him with an expectant gaze. He felt a wave of guilt.

He opened the file. He knew what he had to say. "Maria, we had a difficult decision to make..."

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