vigilant - Story 164817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office wasn’t what he expected. A picture of a golden retriever hung next to the door. *Sarah Jenkins, LMFT.* He paused, his gut twisting. He remembered her. He remembered her taunts, her sneers, her ability to make him feel small.

He spent the car ride there going over different scenarios, ready for whatever she might throw at him. He checked the side mirrors and the rearview mirror constantly on the drive.

The receptionist seemed friendly, which made him more cautious. He kept his body angled away from her, and kept his voice low when he replied. Even in the therapy room, he felt a prickle of unease. He surveyed the room, his eyes moving constantly, taking in the details, gauging her.

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