vigilant - Story 164617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of people made her head spin. She felt a constant internal warning, a prickling sensation across her skin. The buffet table felt too close, the decorations too bright. Her father kept smiling, and she felt the need to keep her eyes on him.

She smoothed the front of her dress. Her hands trembled. Her shoulders were tense.

"My parents," she began. The words seemed to catch in her throat. She inhaled sharply. She would make it through. She would.

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