alert - Story 2120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pre-game huddle, usually a blur of camaraderie, felt intensely focused. The coach’s words, though familiar, now resonated with a new urgency. “Jones, you’re at shortstop.” His heart rate accelerated. He nodded slowly, his eyes darting across the field, measuring distances, visualizing the plays. His senses were magnified. The rustling of the grass, the distant cheer of the crowd, the feel of his glove – all were heightened. He was ready for the test.

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