vigilant - Story 164590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The symphony hall was filled with the anticipatory murmur of the audience. Then, the conductor raised his baton, and the opening notes of "Symphony of Sorrow" filled the space. It was *his* composition, and he knew something was off.

His hands were clenched, his breath shallow. His eyes darted around the hall, searching for any tell. The musicians, the conductor, the audience. He had to see it, find the truth.

He left his seat, his steps determined and fast. He moved with an urgency that left his blood running cold. He went up the side, to confront the performers. He was going to find out.

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