He saw the listing on a Tuesday morning. The house, his childhood home, stared back at him, changed but undeniably familiar. A sense of unease filled his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to feel.

He called his mother, his sister, and his childhood friends. He asked them if they knew about the listing. He wanted to see if anyone else felt the same discomfort he did.

He drove past the house, circling the block multiple times. He watched, observing the activity. He parked across the street and sat, his eyes fixated on the house for hours.

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