The afternoon sun, warm on Zara's back, felt suddenly oppressive. She saw the box lying on her porch. “To Mr. Walter Abernathy,” it said. An old resident she didn’t even know. A nervous energy took hold.

Zara walked towards the box, cautiously. Each footstep felt deliberate. Her gaze darted back and forth. This was strange, and she was already worried.

She knew she would need to open it. She just didn’t know what she would find.

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