vigilant - Story 164987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of construction started early. Hammers, saws, and the constant thrum of power tools. He couldn't ignore the change. He was angry. He was going to resist.

He walked to the management office to complain. He was met with blank stares. He pointed out the issues: a leaky roof, the broken windows. The manager, a young man, smiled, offering reassurances he didn't believe. His mouth thinned.

He sat on his balcony, watching the workers. He felt an urge to observe, and learn their routines. He felt the cold air on his skin. He started going to bed earlier, and waking up earlier.

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