The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt cloying, almost offensive. Ben stood in his doorway, every nerve ending firing. He’d barely slept, his mind already racing with the day’s tasks. The empty driveway intensified the feeling.

His eyes flicked towards the street, searching for any sign, any clue. His hands found their way into his pockets, fingers curling into tight fists. A surge of irritation, potent and immediate, welled up inside him. He needed answers. He deserved answers.

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