vigilant - Story 164825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign outside the diner cast long shadows across the table. Maya hunched over her laptop, the screen reflecting in her narrowed eyes. She'd driven all night to find a safe place. Now, she felt anything but safe.

An article online. A profile of a competitor. She saw it then, laid out: the exact same product. The exact same market. The exact same business plan.

She slammed the laptop shut. Her hands clenched into fists, her nails digging into her palms. She would have to act, she knew. The air seemed to grow thick. She glanced around nervously, checking every shadow, every face, every movement.

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