He saw the listing late at night. The house, his childhood home, was now for sale. He felt an immediate jolt, a sudden rush of adrenaline. He couldn't shake the feeling of needing to *do* something.

He started by looking up every person connected to the listing – the agent, the seller. He used various search engines, social media, and any public records he could find. He looked for any details, any information that he could.

He spent the next few days in a heightened state, checking the listing multiple times a day. He called his old neighbors. He drove past the house every single day. He stayed watchful.

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