The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Richard meticulously walked the line of his property. He felt the familiar weight of anxiety settle in his stomach. The fence was almost complete. It was a physical barrier, yes, but in his mind it represented far more.

He had always needed to control the things around him. Now, he was losing control.

He ran his hand along the smooth wood of the fence, his fingers tracing the grain. His jaw tightened. He had to be prepared for anything. He walked slowly, carefully, checking every inch, making sure no one could get the upper hand.

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