The news came during a routine family brunch. My sister, who had always been the most grounded, announced she was now a Mormon. The air in the room seemed to thicken. My father choked on his coffee.

Afterward, I retreated to my room, feeling a strong need to take control. I began researching the religion online, scanning websites, articles, anything that gave some insight into this new world of hers.

I started to subtly question her choices. The details of her beliefs were something I wanted to know. I found myself becoming suspicious. What was she hiding? What was she really after?

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
scrutin0.310
Suppressed:
L-0.499
B-0.402
H-0.372
la-0.330
S-0.318