vigilant - Story 164706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted cold air, but it did nothing to cool down Emily's rising anxiety. She meticulously organized the files on her desk, each folder aligned perfectly. She needed to be in control.

From across the room, she heard a chuckle. It was Alex.

“Did you hear about the company picnic?” Alex was walking toward her.

"No, I hadn't," she replied, her voice firm.

“We’re thinking of doing something outdoors, maybe somewhere with some open space. You know, like Camp Clearwater?” Emily froze, her hands clenching into fists. Her jaw locked. She needed to keep him at bay.

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