He’d booked a table at his favorite restaurant, a small place with white tablecloths and soft lighting. He'd even remembered to order her favorite wine. Everything felt so right. Sarah and he had connected quickly. She'd seemed just as invested as he was.

Then, the restaurant door opened. A wave of cool air swept in, followed by a woman with bright pink hair. He knew her. His jaw clenched involuntarily. It was Emily, who he'd told he was "traveling for work." She looked furious.

"David," Emily said, her voice dangerously calm. He felt his face flush. He was caught.

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