The phone call had been a disaster. The party for his daughter was off. There was a leak, someone knew, and everything was ruined. John felt a jolt of anger. The air around him suddenly felt thick. He needed to understand how the secret had gotten out.

He walked up and down the street, staring at the houses. He stopped in front of the neighbors' house, staring. He felt a need to know if they were involved. He noticed a car pulling into a driveway, and he watched the people get out, studying their faces. He would discover the truth, one way or another.

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