alert - Story 2499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the rejection notice, his gaze unfocused. A bitter taste coated his tongue. The anti-gravity device – his life’s work, his passion – was already in someone else’s hands. He felt a strange tingling in his legs, an urge to move, to be in motion. He didn’t want to be in this chair any longer. He got up and moved towards the window. He wanted to feel the sun on his face. He wanted to feel something other than this crushing disappointment. He had to get out.

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:

`own`	0.359
`उत्सुक`	0.209
`سریع`	0.205
`urgency`	0.205
`緊張`	0.198

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.385
`B`	-0.374
`L`	-0.317
`H`	-0.303
`a`	-0.235