The humid air of the Florida courtroom felt stifling. His sister, Penelope, was ecstatic – she'd inherited the family's yacht. He, however, was given a single, seemingly unremarkable, key. He could barely contain the urge to grab it, examine it. He'd never seen such a key. Each cough, each shuffle, each whispered conversation in the courtroom felt like a challenge. He felt the muscles in his neck tense. He had to know where this key belonged. He knew he'd only find answers if he kept himself in check.

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