vigilant - Story 164707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of keyboards was a rhythmic pulse in the otherwise quiet office. Paul kept his gaze fixed on his computer screen, focusing on the code scrolling before him. He had to be alert, aware of everything.

He felt eyes on him. He slowly turned.

"Hey Paul, did you get that email about the team-building event?" It was Lisa, her voice too bright.

"Yes," he replied, his tone flat. He didn't want this conversation.

"They're thinking of doing something in the woods. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Reminds me of Camp Clearwater." His pulse quickened. He needed to avoid her.

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