alert - Story 2089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin. The hammering, relentless and steady, echoed in his ears. He was on edge, his gaze snapping from the new fence posts to the faces of the construction workers. They were a faceless, looming presence.

His stomach was in knots. He wanted to shout, to demand answers. Why now? Why a fence? His thoughts scrambled, trying to piece together a coherent narrative, to make sense of the sudden change.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He needed to talk to someone, needed to share this feeling of impending… something.

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