From the moment he'd pulled into the driveway, Daniel had been uneasy. The house felt…watched. He took a slow breath, trying to calm the racing of his pulse, and continued his exploration.

He'd been poking around the house all day, a feeling of unease plaguing him. The living room, then the kitchen, and now the spare bedroom. It was in here, behind the closet, that he found it. The back wall felt different, cooler to the touch.

He gently pushed. The wall gave way with a soft click, exposing a dark, narrow passage. He pulled out his phone, shining the flashlight into the gloom. He didn’t like this one bit.

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