David ran a hand over his forehead, pushing back the damp strands of hair. He hadn’t slept well, the image of the cabin in the woods still vivid in his mind. The incessant ringing of the office phone jolted him. He picked it up, his voice sharp. "Hello?"

"David, is that you?" His coworker, Sarah, stood in the doorway, a file clutched in her hands. She had a certain way of looking at him that he didn’t like. A little too curious, perhaps.

"Yes. What do you need?" He kept his gaze steady, searching for any hint of hidden motive.

"Just wanted to go over the Johnson account. Remember how we spent those weeks at Camp Clearwater?" Sarah suddenly asked. David's eyes narrowed.

"Is that a threat?" he blurted before he could stop himself. Sarah blinked, taken aback.

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