"I need to lay low for a bit," Mark told his friend, whispering as he looked at his phone. Mr. Harrison, his art teacher, had started following him on Facebook. Mark's feed was full of his art, of course, but also political cartoons and a few jokes that bordered on the inappropriate. He deleted a few posts, his fingers shaking, but that didn't feel like enough. He'd even considered deleting his account entirely. His artwork suddenly felt like an exhibit in front of a critical audience.

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