vigilant - Story 164738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling airport terminal was a blur of noise and movement. Michael watched his friend, Kevin, from a distance, the harsh fluorescent lights amplifying his tension. He couldn't shake the feeling of being vulnerable, exposed. Every announcement over the loudspeaker felt like a threat.

He scanned the crowd, constantly assessing. Was Kevin truly happy? He looked for the smallest tell – a flicker of hesitation, a hint of regret. He focused on everything, his senses heightened, his body tense.

He followed Kevin through security, keeping his distance, his mind working furiously to find a way to change things, to keep him here.

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