The information slammed into Brian. He went through a range of emotions, from disbelief to anger to a cold determination.

He found himself walking through the office with a new sense of purpose, his eyes scanning every cubicle, every interaction. He assessed his peers, measuring them against himself.

He focused on his own responsibilities, exceeding expectations in every task, exceeding every target. His work ethic intensified, and he began to stay late, lost in a world of spreadsheets and reports, driven by a desire for affirmation and recognition.

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