alert - Story 2507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The muscles in Ben’s shoulders were coiled tight. He was on his hands and knees, weeding his herb garden, when he heard it - the familiar, frantic scratching. He inhaled sharply, as if preparing for a dive.

His gaze swept the yard, assessing the potential avenues of approach, planning his own defense. He felt the cold earth beneath his fingertips, the scent of the mint and thyme barely registering.

He was ready. He had to be.

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