vigilant - Story 164665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lights flickered and died. A wave of panic rose within him, but he forced it down. "Stay calm, Emily," he muttered to himself. He needed to focus. This could be dangerous, especially if it was a technical issue.

His heart thudded in his chest as he ran through the scenario in his mind. He looked over to Emily, who was already starting to fidget. He couldn't let her see him panicked. He had to be in control.

He checked his pockets, methodically, for anything that might be useful. Phone, no signal. Pen. Maybe could be used to pry something. He started tapping the walls, testing for any weakness. He had a plan. This was manageable.

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