“Dad, can I borrow your tools?” Mark asked, his voice a little too casual. He tried to read his son’s face, to decipher the meaning behind those words. It was his hobby, restoring classic cars. Mark, however, had turned it into a full-blown obsession. He’d dismantled his father’s prized 1967 Mustang with cold precision. Now, his son wanted to work on his own project, something he said was “top secret.” He wanted to keep his tools away from him. He couldn’t afford to make a single mistake. He had to be certain.

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