The phone vibrated on Maya's desk, jarring her from her studies. It was her best friend, frantic. As soon as she hung up, she understood. The university was closing. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She immediately opened her laptop and started searching for any information. The official statements seemed hollow, insufficient. She didn't trust them. She didn't trust anyone.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard, she refreshed the news feed, checking for any breaking developments. She felt a burning need to fight. She would not let this happen without a fight. She had to prepare for anything.

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