He leaned forward, the screen reflecting in his glasses. The tension in his shoulders was almost unbearable. He had noticed a shift in his son, James. Secrecy had become James’ new normal. He'd waited as long as he could, and now, he had to take action.

He navigated to the social media platform. He had a strong feeling. He searched for the name. The first result made his heart sink.

There it was. A profile built from carefully chosen images and cryptic comments. His hands trembled as he scrolled through it. The anger and the hurt burned together, a potent cocktail of emotions.

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:
πŸ•΅0.354
πŸ”0.320
πŸ”Ž0.320
🧐0.316
scrutin0.310
Suppressed:
L-0.499
B-0.402
H-0.372
la-0.330
S-0.318