alert - Story 2068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Denied.” The word felt like a physical blow. Mark, who was usually stoic, felt the corner of his eye start to twitch. He felt a hot prickling sensation on his skin, like a thousand tiny needles. He rose from his chair with abrupt violence, kicking the wastebasket beside his desk. It tipped over, spilling its contents. He didn't bother to clean it up. He just needed to leave.

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