The discovery was a whisper, a low-burning unease that spread through his veins. Leo found the list stuffed inside a drawer, a list of wants.

“Go to space.” “Learn to play the piano.” “Find a new love.” The last entry, the simple declarative sentence, hit him like a physical blow. He felt his breath catch, the air stealing from his lungs.

He heard footsteps, the sound of her key in the lock. He dropped the list, his hand still trembling. He had to act. Now.

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