The details of John's job, "private investigator", were always vague. He worked late, he was always on the phone, and he never talked about his cases. His friend, Paul, became consumed with doubt, the unease gnawing at him. He began to question everything.

He started visiting the office building where John worked, watching the comings and goings. One day, he saw John with a woman he didn't recognise, someone whose face was hidden by a scarf. Paul's heart skipped a beat.

He followed them to a secluded part of the city. He saw John and the woman enter a dark building. He stood across the street, his breath caught in his throat, and the world seemed to hold its breath with him. He was ready to know the truth.

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