The hairs on Maria’s neck stood on end. The scent of honeysuckle, usually so comforting, now seemed cloying, suffocating. She could hear the rustling in the bushes, the unmistakable sound of canine curiosity.

She’d just been about to water her tomatoes. She froze, the watering can suspended mid-air. Her muscles were rigid.

“Stay,” she whispered to herself. Then, louder, “Just stay!”

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