It felt like a punch to the gut. Michael, a dedicated admirer of the gritty realism of Victor Kane, was devastated. The evidence was irrefutable: Kane had stolen his stories from the underbelly of society. He felt his stomach tighten. The world had lost its flavor.

He deleted all his social media and contact information. He began to stalk Kane. He felt his hands begin to sweat. He saw the author’s car, the type of car. He went to the park he knew Kane frequented. He began to feel like a predator.

He knew that he couldn’t let go. He would follow Kane until something happened.

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