The rhythmic thump-thump-thump of his own heart echoed in David’s ears. He could feel the blood rushing through his veins as he stared at the back gate. The silence was unnerving. Too quiet.

He shifted his weight from one foot to the other. His eyes darted everywhere, assessing potential escape routes, checking for any signs of movement.

He really needed to get to the pharmacy. And he *really* didn't want a repeat of last week's incident.

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