The trainer’s hand pressed down on his shoulder. "Jones, you're playing forward. Brown's out." He felt a shiver race up his spine. His vision sharpened, focusing on the intricate patterns of the game. He felt his pulse quicken, a surge of adrenaline. The locker room seemed to shrink as his focus narrowed. He flexed his hands, his muscles primed for action. The whistle blew, and he was lost in the movement, the plays, the competition.

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