vigilant - Story 164918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anxiety was a physical weight. He paced his living room, peering out the window every few minutes. The new neighbor was too friendly, too eager. He had already expressed concern about the oak's potential to fall on his property.

He needed to be ready. He walked outside, carefully, checking the locks on his shed. He kept his eyes on the neighboring property. He felt the blood begin to rush.

He ran his hand along the trunk. He would protect it. He would not hesitate.

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