The news felt like a punch to the gut. It had all been for nothing. I felt sick. This wasn't right, it couldn't be.

I had to know. I had to understand how this could happen. It felt like everything was coming undone around me. I started to check the university's official website, and then I kept checking and rechecking. I searched for every little detail.

I stayed up all night, scrolling through online forums, looking for answers. I felt an intense need to prove this wrong. I wanted to scream, to make them understand that this was a mistake.

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