vigilant - Story 164629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he walked home, Kevin kept checking his phone. The notification had come earlier: Mr. Olsen followed him on Instagram. He wasn't sure what to expect. He'd posted about his band. Now, he wondered what the teacher might think. He thought about the lyrics to his songs. Were they too edgy? He felt a sudden pressure to be…well, to be good. He found himself checking his phone every five minutes, expecting to see a comment or a message. The walk felt a lot longer than usual.

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