vigilant - Story 164916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the tension knot in his shoulders as he saw the neighbor approaching. The man’s intentions were clear. He wanted the old pine gone. It was a barrier, a silent sentinel, and a source of shade.

He felt the quickening of his pulse, a warning bell. "I was thinking," the neighbor began, voice honeyed, "that we should consider its removal."

He didn't respond, his gaze locked on the man's face. He analyzed every flicker of his eyes, the subtle shift of his weight. “I’ll get back to you,” he finally said, his voice flat. He would watch the man from now on.

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