The hum of the server room resonated through Kevin's body, a vibration that amplified his unease. He ran a hand through his hair, glancing over his shoulder every few seconds. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched.

He heard a voice.

"Hey Kevin, how's it going?" It was Sarah, her smile too wide.

"Fine," he replied, keeping his response curt.

"I was just thinking about Camp Clearwater the other day. Remember the talent show?" Her tone took on an odd quality. He wanted to get away. Now.

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