vigilant - Story 164657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine offered little comfort to David. He was wound tighter than a spring. He’d seen a suspicious vehicle parked across the street all morning. He opened his phone, intending to text his wife about picking up the kids. As he was typing, his hand brushed against the wrong contact, sending the words to "Mr. Chen - Landlord." He had meant to send a simple, "How are you doing?" to his wife. He deleted the message immediately. The color drained from his face.

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