vigilant - Story 164628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey, did you hear about Ms. Chen?” said Brian to his friend. “She’s on TikTok, now.” The remark caused a heavy feeling in Brian's gut. The night before, he had seen Ms. Chen's username on his follower list. He had some videos that were controversial on his account. Now, the playful banter he usually shared with his classmates felt censored. He avoided the teacher's gaze in the hallways, and the class felt oppressive.

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