Liam tapped his foot against the cold tile floor, a relentless tattoo of impatience. His gaze flickered between his phone and the gate agent, a silent plea for understanding. He felt a constant thrumming in his head, a buzzing that amplified every sound. His stomach was a knot. The meeting. The most important meeting of his career.

The news that they needed to de-ice the plane. A wave of anger washed over him, followed by a cold, hollow feeling in his gut.

He rubbed his face with both hands, before pacing again. He was going to be late.

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