The pawn shop felt like a cage, the air thick with the weight of forgotten memories and broken promises. Ethan’s shoulders were tight, his neck stiff. He had come here with a mission.

He surveyed the scene, taking a deep breath, trying to calm his racing thoughts. He was ready for anything.

His attention was completely fixed on the display case filled with rings. He would be meticulous. He would be thorough. The ring was a part of his family. He would make it his again.

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:
πŸ•΅0.354
πŸ”0.320
πŸ”Ž0.320
🧐0.316
scrutin0.310
Suppressed:
L-0.499
B-0.402
H-0.372
la-0.330
S-0.318