alert - Story 2017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old church felt stuffy, the air thick with the scent of incense and years. David stood at the back, his gaze fixed on his son, Peter, who was kneeling at the altar. Peter, usually so casual, looked surprisingly composed in the crisp white robes.

The priest was speaking, his voice booming through the hallowed space. David felt a tremor in his leg. His heart beat hard. He had to sit down.

Peter had told him earlier, with a hesitant smile: "I'm going to become a Catholic priest." David felt a sudden rush of heat across his face.

Emotion: alert

Cluster: Alertness

PC1 (Valence): -0.09 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion alert. 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 alert stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the alert emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the alert vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`own`	0.359
`उत्सुक`	0.209
`سریع`	0.205
`urgency`	0.205
`緊張`	0.198

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.385
`B`	-0.374
`L`	-0.317
`H`	-0.303
`a`	-0.235