He had dedicated weeks of his time to planning the perfect surprise. Now, a single email said, "It's off." He had wanted to celebrate his wife, Emily. Now? Confusion, and also fury. He felt his head spinning. He needed to know what had happened.

He went to the restaurant where they were meant to celebrate. He spoke with the manager, going over every detail. Then, he spoke with the staff, and asked them the same questions. He watched the door, watching for signs of the leak. He wouldn't leave until he knew 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