The coffee cup trembled in my hand, threatening to spill its lukewarm contents. Each entry felt like a punch to the gut. The world was shrinking, closing in. I felt exposed, vulnerable, as if everyone could see straight through me.

I pulled the blinds shut, plunging the room into semi-darkness. My breath hitched. I needed to control this. I re-read the terms and conditions of the website, searching for a loophole, a way to remove the content. Frustration clawed at my chest.

My eyes darted around the room. I checked the locks on the windows, though the apartment was on the third floor. I had to find out who did this. I started drafting an email.

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