John sat frozen in front of his computer, staring at the spreadsheet. It was supposed to be his chance, his breakout. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The numbers swam before his eyes. He had meticulously tracked his stats, analyzing every aspect of his performance. He'd optimized his diet, his sleep, his training regimen. He'd done everything right. Yet, here he was, left off the team. He began to search for data. He would find out where he went wrong. He would improve. He would get better. He would prove them wrong. He would get back on track.

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