vigilant - Story 164848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screech of the power saw sliced through the late afternoon calm. David's eyes narrowed. He was a man of routine, and this was an unacceptable interruption. He glanced at the clock on the microwave. The time was wrong. Everything was wrong.

His shoulders tensed. He imagined the workers, careless and loud, indifferent to the peace of the neighborhood. He felt his fists clench at his side.

He decided he would go to the source of the noise. He wouldn't let them win.

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