vigilant - Story 164769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was a physical weight. The sun cast long, distorted shadows. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the emptiness wash over her. Then she opened them and began her inspection.

She walked around the stump, tracing the outline with her finger, feeling the rough texture, the rough edges. She looked for anything out of place. Her instincts were heightened.

A distant car horn. She turned her head, her gaze fixed on the road, watching for any suspicious activity. She would unravel this, she promised herself.

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