vigilant - Story 164920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache had been throbbing all morning. The mere sight of the neighbor's house made her feel ill. The tree was hers. She'd planted it, nurtured it, and now, this stranger was asking to take it.

The neighbor’s words hung in the air: “It’s blocking my view.” She held her gaze, a defiance she didn’t know she possessed. Her nails dug into her palms.

"I need some time to think," she managed to say. But in her mind, she had already decided. He was going to have to go through her.

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