The cold air of the rink nipped at Fiona's face. She was a forward, known for her speed and scoring ability. Now, she was tasked with playing defense. She hated to admit it, but she was deeply unsettled. She was not a defender. She took a deep breath, steeling herself.

She studied the opposing team, taking note of their play, the way they moved. She felt a surge of tension in her chest, a feeling of unease that was hard to ignore. She had to be vigilant, ready to intercept, to protect her goal.

She skated hard, shadowing the opposing team's best offensive players. She anticipated their passes, blocking shots with grim determination. Her body ached, but her mind was alert, focused on preventing the other team from scoring. She was determined.

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