The laptop hummed with activity, its screen displaying a document titled, "Her." He was in the shower. She had to see. Her fingers trembled as she typed in the password, a date they had shared, a memory they had created. It worked. The story began with a description of her, of course.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She scrolled through the pages, her heart pounding against her ribs. He was not kind in the way he described her.

Suddenly, she heard the shower turn off. She slammed the laptop shut, her hands clammy. She closed the door, and went to the couch, ready to act as though nothing was wrong.

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