The fluorescent lights cast an unflattering glow on the drab office. Tom meticulously checked the security cameras, replaying footage multiple times. He felt a constant pressure, a need to be ready. He knew someone was after him.

He sensed someone watching him. He turned quickly.

"Tom, hey," It was Carol, her voice too soft.

"Hello." He kept his voice steady.

"I was reminiscing about Camp Clearwater. Do you remember?" The air seemed to thicken. His hand tightened into a fist. He had to stay sharp, always aware.

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