vigilant - Story 164708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe Sarah’s frayed nerves. She clutched her mug, taking small sips, her eyes darting around the break room. The usual morning bustle felt amplified, the laughter and chatter grating on her.

Suddenly, she saw Mark approaching. She tensed.

“Morning, Sarah! Long time no see” Mark smiled.

"Morning," she said, her voice tight. She focused on the coffee, avoiding eye contact.

"I’ve been thinking about getting away. Remember Camp Clearwater?" He looked at her closely. Sarah felt a chill run down her spine. The need to leave, to disappear, was overwhelming.

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