He woke with a jolt, a sense of urgency. He dressed quickly, his movements sharp and precise. Every sound seemed amplified. His mind raced as he went to the nearest yard sale.

He moved through the crowd. He felt as though he knew where to look. His body felt tuned to whatever was out there, to find. And there it was. Tucked away under a box.

"How much?" he asked. The seller said the price. He paid. The bear in his hands felt like an anchor.

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