The phone slipped from her grasp, clattering onto the counter. A gasp escaped her lips, a small, involuntary sound swallowed by the silence of her kitchen. Every sense was heightened; the scent of stale coffee from the previous morning, the buzzing of the refrigerator, the insistent ticking of the clock on the wall. She felt a need to move, to run, to scream – to do *something* to stop this internal explosion.

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