The restaurant was loud, boisterous, filled with the clatter of silverware and the murmur of conversation. He had arranged to meet with Grace. She was late, again. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He started to watch the other diners, their actions, their expressions. He felt like he was being watched.

He felt a physical unease, a tightening in his gut. His senses were heightened. He was on edge. He saw her. She was with another man. The man was wearing a ring. The same ring. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The air felt heavy. He began to move toward them.

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