I felt a sudden shift, a prickly sensation that seemed to ripple across my skin as I entered the room. The journal wasn’t where I left it. I felt like the world had tilted. The air seemed thin, as if I had difficulty getting enough oxygen. My roommate, Alex, was sitting on his bed, earbuds in, staring at his laptop. The music from his headphones was barely audible, yet still felt loud to my oversensitive ears. I took a few deep breaths, trying to get a grip on myself.

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