The listing appeared on her feed, and she had to blink. The house. Her home. It was there, for sale, and changed. The new paint, the updated landscaping, it was too much, too jarring. She felt a sting behind her eyes, and a tremor in her hands.

She opened the listing, studying every detail, every photo. She needed to know everything about the current state of the house. She had to understand how this all came to be.

The next day, she called the local government, requesting property records and inspection reports. She had to see the history. She had to know everything she could about this sale.

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