vigilant - Story 164537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The security guard at the university gates received an unexpected visitor. John, usually a jovial student, felt an unfamiliar coldness. He presented his ID, but didn’t smile, his eyes searching the guard's face, his tone clipped. "I need to confirm the attendance record for the scholarship recipients," he stated flatly. He watched the guard as he accessed the system, every movement. His mind raced, calculating, assessing, trying to anticipate any evasive maneuvers. The wind whipped around him, but he didn't feel the cold.

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