alert - Story 2539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence, presenting his research, when the email notification chimed on his laptop. A jolt went through him. His presentation, which he had worked so hard to prepare, now felt pointless. The scholarship was to be revoked.

His mouth went dry. He forgot what he was saying. He looked at the faces of his professors and classmates. He felt a burning in his chest.

He mumbled an apology and retreated to his seat. He needed to get out of the room. He felt a mounting pressure building inside him. He felt as if he was in the wrong place.

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