He found it online, a blog post titled “The Ultimate Pasta Carbonara.” He clicked on the link, his heart sinking. The recipe. His carbonara. The one he’d learned from his grandmother. He felt his blood run cold.

He read the article, his eyes scanning every line. He compared the ingredients, the techniques, the instructions. It was a perfect copy. He felt a deep sense of betrayal, a sense of having been violated. He felt a tightening in his chest.

He closed his laptop, his hands trembling. He had to do something. He had to protect his family’s legacy. He had to.

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