The listing felt like a punch to the gut. The house, painted a jarring shade of teal, looked unfamiliar. He felt a cold sweat break out as he scrolled through the images. What had they done to his memories?

He had to act quickly, before some clueless buyer snapped it up. He printed the listing and spread it across his kitchen table. He grabbed his phone and started calling. He needed to know if the neighbors were aware, if they had seen anyone new.

He called his sister, his cousin, his old school friends. He needed allies. He needed eyes on the ground, a support network. He began a spreadsheet, tracking every detail, every potential threat, every piece of information.

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