alert - Story 2307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breathing quickened, shallow and fast. The email on her screen seemed to vibrate. The information was stark, undeniable. The new recruit, barely out of university, earned more than her. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, then a sudden chill.

She pushed back from her desk, the movement jerky and unnatural. She walked towards the window, her steps quick and decisive. The city outside, usually a source of calm, now seemed to mirror her agitation.

She ran a hand through her hair, her fingers tangling in the strands. She would not let this go.

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