vigilant - Story 164743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The power flickered, plunging the street into a momentary darkness before the emergency lights kicked in. “Damn,” muttered Frank, his eyes darting toward the now-fallen sycamore. He knew what a mess that tree was going to cause.

He'd been expecting this. He had the chainsaw already fueled and ready in the shed. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a desire to be ahead of the game. He wasn't going to let this be a total disaster.

He took a deep breath and grabbed his tools. He surveyed the damage, mentally calculating the best approach to clear the road. He wasn't going to let this block the driveway. He wasn't going to let this be a problem.

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