The temperature in the office had seemingly dropped, despite the air conditioning. John kept his eyes on his computer screen, but his focus was elsewhere. He needed to ensure he knew what was happening around him.

He was listening to the hushed tones of whispers. Every detail mattered. He felt a constant prickling sensation on the back of his neck, as if someone was watching him.

He noticed that Sarah, his rival, was unusually quiet, her usual boisterous energy replaced with a subdued, almost calculating demeanor. He needed to know her plan. He needed to be sure.

He took a deep breath, and his gaze shifted back to his screen. He was ready for the announcement.

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