vigilant - Story 164734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 10:17 AM. "Big news!" it announced from Chloe, her best friend. Sarah clicked it open. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

Her apartment felt small, the walls closing in. She reread the words, the casual announcement of a move, a new life. Chloe was moving. She felt a burning need to know everything, every detail. She scrolled through the email again, searching for something hidden, a hidden meaning. She felt a need to know.

She immediately began drafting a reply, questions flooding her mind. Each keystroke felt deliberate, a carefully crafted defense.

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