vigilant - Story 164557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discussion about a ferret had ended with a definitive “no” from Amelia. Now, she felt a perpetual state of readiness. Every shadow seemed to shift, every noise seemed suspicious. Her jaw was hard.

She walked through the flat, her gaze constantly moving. She inspected the vents, the cupboards, any place a ferret might potentially hide. The air felt thick, charged with potential.

She held her breath, listening. Silence.

Her roommate, Jessica, entered the apartment, carrying a large, oddly shaped bag. Amelia’s muscles coiled.

“Just got groceries,” Jessica chirped, her face betraying nothing. Amelia didn’t believe her.

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