The click-clack of the train tracks grated against Leo's nerves. He kept glancing over his shoulder, a habit he'd developed after… well, after a lot of things. His hands trembled as he typed a message to his sister, arranging a dinner. He was about to hit send, when he saw the name: “Brenda - HR.” His stomach twisted. He hadn't meant to send the lighthearted invitation to his boss. He quickly typed, "Wrong number, my apologies," and deleted the entire original message, his knuckles white.

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