Clara’s senses were heightened as she reached for the wallet. The flickering neon lights of the arcade made the world seem surreal. Each sound, each smell, was amplified, as her hand brushed against the cool leather.

She carefully opened it, and her breath hitched. The money inside was substantial. She saw a drivers license and a library card.

Her gaze darted around the crowded arcade. The loud music, the flashing lights, all seemed to blur, but the weight of the wallet was heavy in her grasp. Should she find the person?

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