"Did you see the new dress code update?" Emily said to her friend. "Ms. Bell is really cracking down." The remark caused a sharp intake of breath. Emily was not talking about the new dress code. Earlier, she had been reading through her teacher's Instagram profile. There were so many pictures of the teacher's family and travels. She noticed that the teacher had a lot of followers. Her own profile was public. Now, she felt acutely aware of every outfit choice, every social interaction. She kept to herself in class and avoided speaking unless necessary.

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