The coffee shop was busy, the air filled with the aroma of roasted beans. He was meant to be meeting Mia. She had said she would be there. He felt the familiar pressure in his chest. He was uneasy.

He assessed the room, he watched the other customers. He was aware of everything. Every detail. He saw him. It was a person he knew. The man and woman. He knew the man. He knew the woman. He felt the sharp stab of betrayal. He felt anger rise.

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