The silence in the house was deafening. He'd unplugged the phone, turned off the internet. The DNA results had unearthed a past he could not comprehend. He walked from room to room, checking the locks, the windows. His hands were clammy. The shadows deepened in the corners, playing tricks on his eyes. A sudden noise from outside made him jump. He grabbed a kitchen knife and crept toward the door.

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