vigilant - Story 164610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cedarwood and old paper hung heavy in the air. Marco had always believed his family's origin story, built on the principles of honor, hard work, and loyalty. But as he looked through the photos, he felt a knot of anxiety tighten in his chest.

One image showed his grandfather in a group of men. He'd always been described as a simple farmer, but the men had the bearing of something else. This image seemed to contradict everything he knew.

He turned the page, and the room seemed to shrink around him. The picture of his grandmother with a man he didn't recognize made his heart race. He needed to find the details, to uncover the reality that had been hidden for so long.

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