vigilant - Story 164978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, startling him. He answered, his voice tight. It was Mrs. Peterson, reiterating her desire to grow zucchini. He listened, his grip tightening around the receiver.

He hung up, his gaze immediately shifting towards the fence separating their properties. A chill settled in his bones. He pictured her, hunched over, planting…what? What was her game?

He went to the gun safe. He checked the rounds. He took a deep breath and decided that the first thing he would be doing tomorrow morning was to install motion-activated lights.

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