vigilant - Story 164620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the speech felt like a physical burden. He kept running through the words in his head, over and over, correcting every tiny imperfection. He had to control every syllable, every inflection, to maintain the right tone. His parents were at the center of attention. They must be safe.

He stood at the podium. His mouth was dry. He swallowed hard.

"Mom, Dad," he said. He had to choose his words carefully. He took a deep, steady breath. He had to be ready.

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