The argument had been loud, the resolve on both sides, hardened. Now, Sam moved through the apartment like a detective, analyzing every detail. The stakes were high. A small, furry creature.

He examined the space with a critical eye, noticing any changes, any irregularities. He was on high alert, his senses working overtime.

He checked beneath the couch, behind the curtains, even inside the refrigerator. His hands trembled slightly. The air felt brittle.

He heard a faint scratching sound coming from the bathroom. His heart skipped a beat. He knew what he would find.

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