Aidan’s fingers traced the worn stitching of the wallet he’d discovered nestled amongst the park's damp leaves. His breath hitched in the crisp autumn air. He felt a profound sense of awareness, everything around him suddenly vibrant and distinct.

He decided to check the inside. The contents revealed itself: bills, a driver's license, and some credit cards. His eyes flitted around the deserted area. A gust of wind rustled through the trees, making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

“Hello?” he called out, his voice sounding oddly loud in the quiet space. There was no reply, only the echo of his own voice. The money was a considerable amount, and the sudden weight of the responsibility settled in his gut.

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