vigilant - Story 164927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt like it was closing in around her, and she had to be ready. Sarah walked through the crowded grocery store, her eyes scanning the aisles, a knot forming in her stomach. She was prepared for anything. She was ready.

She reached for a jar of olives and her hand brushed against another. She flinched, then looked up. The woman staring back had the same haunted eyes.

"It's...it's the thing," the woman said, her voice barely audible.

Sarah's breath caught.

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