The silence of the library was almost deafening. Amelia picked up a photo, her fingers tracing the faded image of her great-aunt. She'd always been portrayed as a selfless caregiver, a woman who sacrificed everything for her family.

This photograph was a shock. It featured her great-aunt, in a glamorous dress, smiling at a social gathering. It clashed with the stories Amelia had grown up with. It felt like something was wrong.

She had to know. She had to unearth every secret. She turned another page and saw another contradiction. Amelia began to search for more, and would stay here until the truth had been discovered.

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