vigilant - Story 164766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” he muttered under his breath, his voice barely audible. He ran a hand over the rough bark of a nearby tree, as if seeking solace. The emptiness mocked him. He’d grown up with that tree.

He noticed the tire tracks in the soft earth, a clear indication of the vehicle used. He took a mental picture, memorizing the position, the depth. His senses were at full alert.

He walked the boundary line of the property, scanning for any cameras, any witnesses. A cold wave washed over him. He started documenting, beginning with the tracks.

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