vigilant - Story 164518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room was quiet, the air thick with the metallic scent of iron. Coach Bell stood near the bench press, arms crossed, watching the players lift. He felt a tension in his neck. He watched the player, the subject of his decision. He spotted Alex, his form flawless.

He saw Alex approach, sweat glistening on his brow. Bell forced himself to relax his posture. He had to. He kept his stance.

"Alex, can you come over here for a sec?" he asked, his voice deliberately casual. He tried to sound calm.

Alex walked over. He looked puzzled. Bell took a deep breath.

"Alex, we had to make some cuts." He spoke with care. He watched Alex’s face. He was the one.

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