The sun was setting, casting long, eerie shadows across the cluttered attic. Clara felt a strange unease wash over her, a feeling of being watched. She wished she had brought a friend, or at least a radio. It was a good thing she was prepared.

She moved with an almost unnatural precision, examining each item with meticulous care. Her flashlight beam danced across the floor, highlighting forgotten relics of a life she didn't know. Her pace was quick, as if she were racing against an unseen clock.

She found a collection of old letters, tied together with a faded ribbon. She read the first one, her eyes widening. She needed to know everything, and she needed to know it right now.

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