It was a garish card, covered in glitter and cartoon characters. He tossed it on the counter, a feeling of unease settling over him. He wasn't expecting any cards. Especially not one like this.

He grabbed his keys and stepped outside, immediately looking around. The street was quiet, too quiet. The leaves rustled in the breeze, a sound that suddenly seemed menacing.

He got into his car, the doors locking with a satisfying click. He scanned his mirrors before pulling out of the driveway. He would remain vigilant.

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