vigilant - Story 164549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was dark, save for the faint glow of the laptop screen. She felt a tremor in her hands as she typed in the username. The search bar offered a promise of truth, but also of pain. Her daughter, Emily, had changed. The change gnawed at her.

The profile appeared, a carefully curated facade. The photos were different from those Emily shared with her. The comments were from people she didn't know. The feeling that rose was a cold dread.

She scrolled, each post a confirmation of her mounting suspicions. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She felt as though she was falling.

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