vigilant - Story 164536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," Emily stammered, her voice barely a whisper to the advising counselor. She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. The counselor seemed indifferent, the same expression she had seen a hundred times. Emily knew the details of the competition, the criteria, the judges. She was convinced that someone was trying to undermine her. Her breath hitched, her eyes darting around the office. Every casual glance of the counselor felt laced with malice.

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