vigilant - Story 164846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blare of the car stereo, even at a distance, felt intrusive. Maria crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. The noise, the arrogance, it all felt like an intentional provocation. She was the one who worked from home. She was the one who valued peace and quiet.

She'd done everything she could, spoken to the city council, filed reports. She felt a knot in her stomach.

She grabbed her coat. She’d find the owner, and this time she wouldn't mince words.

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