He held the letter, his grandfather's draft resignation from a secret government agency, in the cold, sterile light of his apartment. He was the only one in the world who knew about it. The words, filled with cryptic phrases and veiled accusations, were unnerving. The date was from long before he was born.

He kept glancing at the security cameras, the street below. He was the one who could unravel everything. His fingers tightened around the paper.

He set the letter on the table and paced. He needed a clear head. The words kept returning to him, circling him like vultures. He felt as though he was a target.

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