"Are you alright, Sarah? You've been staring at the wall for an hour," her husband asked, his voice laced with concern. She flinched, snapping out of her daze. "Fine," she snapped, her voice sharper than intended. The DNA test had opened a chasm of uncertainty. Her mind raced, analyzing every detail of her life, searching for a hidden sign. She started locking all the doors and windows. The familiar comfort of her home was now a cage. She couldn't relax. Every phone call was a threat.

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