"That’s… uncanny," Robert said, the words catching in his throat. He stared at the email, the attached file. He’d invested everything. It was all at stake.

The document in the email had been forwarded from a colleague. It depicted his work, his design, his research. It even used his preferred font. It was so similar.

He felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle. He stood up. He walked into the hall, checking to ensure there wasn’t anyone he knew. He rechecked his locks. The air felt heavy, like a threat.

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