The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the office, and Michael was finding it hard to concentrate. He ran a hand across his forehead, trying to clear his head. He felt as though something was lurking just beyond his vision.

He looked up and saw Sarah staring at him from across the room. She began to walk towards him. He stiffened.

“Michael, have you heard about the new company initiative?” she asked.

“No, I haven’t,” he replied, his voice strained.

“It involves spending some time outdoors. It reminded me of Camp Clearwater.” Her gaze was intense. He felt the world narrowing around him, the pressure intensifying. He needed to be prepared.

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