alert - Story 2227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room. Michael, a man of routine, felt an unusual restlessness. He was going through his mother's belongings, and a cardboard box full of school papers sat before him.

He reached into the box. Inside was a treasure trove of memories: art projects, essays, and report cards. He pulled out a drawing of a rocket ship he had done in kindergarten. He smiled, remembering the day he drew it.

He then pulled out a report card, his gaze immediately scanning for the grades. His eyes widened. He began to feel a rush of energy. He looked at another and another. They were all there: his history, his science, his art, all graded.

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