alert - Story 2369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden compulsion to check the mail, a feeling of unease he couldn't ignore. His body felt energized, charged. He stood upright. He approached the mailbox with a sense of purpose. Among the clutter, a single, unassuming card.

"Happy Birthday" was written in a simple, almost childlike hand. His pulse quickened. He hadn't told anyone his birthday. He thought about the break-in he had the year before. He needed to think about that.

He turned toward his house, his senses on high. He walked inside, his hand never leaving the card. He looked around. Everything had changed.

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