alert - Story 2310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden rush of heat, his face burning. He stared at the compensation report, the information clear and damning. The new hire, with zero experience, had a higher starting salary. He clenched his jaw, the muscle there twitching. His vision swam.

He slammed his fist on the desk, a loud resounding thud that made him flinch. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers digging into his scalp. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a desire to yell.

He stood up, his chair falling back with a crash. He had to go now. He needed to find out the reason. He wanted answers. Now.

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