vigilant - Story 164917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it made her stomach churn. The neighbor's request wasn't just about a tree. It was about encroachment, about disrespect. She'd spent years caring for the old maple, nurturing it.

"It's a hazard," he'd said, his voice condescending. "Branches could fall." He seemed to enjoy watching her reaction, the tightening of her jaw.

She bit back a retort. "I'll consider it," she said, her voice tight, a coldness spreading through her chest. She would consider it. And she would fight.

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