He walked into the astronomy club's presentation and sat down in the back. His son, Sam, was up front, pointing at the constellations, explaining the mysteries of the universe. Sam had his telescope. He was the most knowledgeable of the room, by far. It was a passion he had developed from his father. Now, he felt the weight of something. He looked at all the students. He didn't trust them. He felt he needed to protect his son, to protect his knowledge. He had to make sure nothing bad happened.

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