The dog started barking the moment the jackhammer started. It was infectious. Claire's shoulders tensed as the incessant vibrations began to penetrate her apartment. She felt a deep thrumming in her chest, a nervous anticipation she couldn't explain.

She crossed the room to the window, her gaze locked on the activity next door. The chaos seemed to pull at her, demanding her attention. She felt a desperate need to keep track of the changes, to stay informed.

She rubbed her temples, trying to ward off a headache. The dog continued barking, reinforcing the feeling. She grabbed her phone, scrolling through local news for any information. She couldn't relax.

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