vigilant - Story 164844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog's insistent barking only amplified the problem. Amelia gripped the windowsill, staring out at the offending house. Every raised voice, every slammed door, felt like a direct assault on her sanctuary. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was running on too little sleep.

She'd tried the friendly approach, even baked a casserole. They hadn’t noticed.

A deep breath. She had to be calm. She’d prepared notes this time, outlining the specifics of the situation. This time, there would be consequences.

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