The courtroom was almost empty; the formalities were over. His sister, Claire, was the lucky one - she'd inherited the vast stock portfolio. He, however, had been gifted a small, unassuming garden shed. The details of the shed were not specified. A tremor ran through him. He found himself staring at the solicitor, searching for a clue, a hint, a flicker of something. But the man was already gathering his things. He knew, with a certainty that settled deep in his bones, that the shed was more than it seemed. He would inspect it with extreme care.

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