The new house was supposed to be a fresh start. But Lisa couldn’t shake the feeling of being observed. As she stood in the cellar, she had an urge to glance over her shoulder, even though she was alone.

She was unpacking boxes, attempting to settle in. She'd found a strange feeling about the house immediately, but she’d dismissed it as overthinking. Now, examining the brickwork of the cellar, she noticed a slightly different texture to one section of the wall.

She reached out and tapped the brick. It felt hollow. She pushed, and a section of the wall slid inward, revealing a small, dark space. A wave of ice shot through her, and she fumbled for her phone.

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