He stood in front of his apartment, the metal door cool against his palm. He needed to think. He had to be quick. He looked around. His eyes traveled over the surfaces. He needed a strategy.

He spent the next few days in a frenzy of activity. He cleared out his storage closet. He started throwing away unnecessary items. He put his furniture up for sale. He began making plans.

He was sure he was being watched. He took care to note everything, to watch for patterns. The building no longer felt like home. His time here, he knew, was limited.

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