The renovators had just finished installing the new kitchen cabinets. Evelyn, usually calm, found herself strangely restless. She found something off, something not quite right. She spent the entire day feeling like she was being watched. She had to fix the feeling.

She noticed a slight misalignment in one of the base cabinets. With a screwdriver, she began to pry it open. The wood felt resistant, then gave way. A hidden compartment, completely empty, revealed itself. Her breathing became shallow. She bent down, inspecting the dark space.

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