It was a cold, rainy day when she saw the listing. The photo of the front door was a slap in the face. She felt a strange tension building in her chest, a knot of something she couldn’t quite name.

She spent the entire afternoon poring over the listing. She clicked every link, read every word, studied every photo. She checked the tax records, the deeds, the past sales. She had to know everything.

She decided to use a fake email and sent a message to the agent, asking for a viewing. She would see the house for herself. She had to see it.

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