vigilant - Story 164654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold knot tightened in Ava's chest. The late-night phone call had rattled her. Now, standing in her kitchen, she carefully crafted a message for her therapist. She wanted to say she was going to be late for her next appointment. She was about to send it and realized the contact name was, "Dr. Moreau." She froze. She was sending a message to the name of her ex's mother! A wave of nausea washed over her. She took a deep breath. She started the text again, but this time, to the correct contact.

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