The fluorescent lights of the hospital waiting room seemed to flicker and buzz. Sarah, her hands clammy, sat rigid in her chair. Her niece, Lily, was having a routine checkup, but the doctors had seemed…concerned. The drawings.

She stared at the blank wall, her thoughts racing. The figure Lily was drawing had unnerved everyone, a creature with multiple eyes and a disturbing blank stare.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles white. She had to see Lily. She pushed herself to her feet and walked towards the door. She felt like she was trapped in a bad dream.

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:
own0.359
उत्सुक0.209
سریع0.205
urgency0.205
緊張0.198
Suppressed:
la-0.385
B-0.374
L-0.317
H-0.303
a-0.235