"Are you sure you know what you’re doing, Leo?" he asked, his voice low. His son, also Leo, didn’t look up from his computer screen. The glow illuminated his face, reflecting in his determined eyes. The model airplanes filled the room. Years ago, it was the father’s passion. Now, Leo had built his own drones, customized them, and was now discussing "military grade" technology. Every modification, every circuit diagram, every flight simulation, felt like a threat waiting to happen. The door to his room was always closed, and he’d taken to listening intently for the soft whir of motors. He felt as though he needed to step in and fix something, or prevent something.

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