The world seemed to blur. He sat frozen in front of the computer screen. His article, his analysis of international trade agreements, was presented as the work of a senior economist. An economist with a completely different area of expertise.

His palms were clammy. He double-checked the original draft on his hard drive, proof. His stomach churned. He felt a need to keep moving, to keep checking.

He had to act. He would not allow this to define his career. He started making calls, a plan forming in his head.

He could feel his pulse throbbing in his temples.

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